Child Psychology Quotes

• Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

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  Wilhelm Wundt

  Children   Animal   Psychology  

  "Principles of Physiological Psychology".

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• I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

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  Bill Cosby

  Children   Mean   Psychology  

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

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  Shanina Shaik

  Children   Psychology   Study  

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• I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.

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  Steve Wozniak

  Baby   Children   College  

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

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  Thomas Szasz

  Children   Psychology   Psychiatry  

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

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  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children   Reading   Kids  

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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  James A. Baldwin

  Family   Education   Wisdom  

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

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  Erik Erikson

  Children   Miracle   Psychology  

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

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  Carl Jung

  Inspirational   Children   Childhood  

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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