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Category Archives: Infancy
Some Great Quotations About the Genius of Children
Here are some quotations that I’ve collected over the years about the amazing genius of children. “The real magic wand is the child’s own mind.” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset (Spanish philosopher) “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood, Education, Human Development, Infancy, Late Childhood, Middle Childhood, Parenting, Quotations
Tagged art, Ashley Montagu, Black Elk, childhood, children, creativity, education, genius, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Henri Matisse, human potential, J. Buckminster Fuller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Holt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, learning, Mencius, music, Pablo Picasso, quotations, science, Sir Kenneth Clark, the child
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Mother and Infant: The Primal Relationship
A mother’s relationship to her infant during the first few months of life is an archetypal one. That means that baby sees the mother not as a personal mother, but as the “great mother” — the all sustaining mother earth. … Continue reading
Posted in Human Development, Infancy, Parenting
Tagged babies, Human Development, infancy, infant development, mothering, mothers
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The Four Stages of Birth: Their Agonies and Ecstasies
Eighty years ago, Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank theorized that when we are born, we experience a “birth trauma” that affects us for the rest of our lives. More recently, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof has created a model for understanding in greater depth … Continue reading
The Transitional Object: A Half-Way House for Identity Formation
I fly a lot, and when I travel I see a lot of people carrying teddy bears in the airport; not just children; adults too. Everytime I see somebody carrying one onto a plane, I think of the idea of … Continue reading
Introducing Curious Kids to an Amazing World: How Difficult Can This Be?
About education: here’s what I don’t understand. On the one hand, you have the child – this incredibly wonderful organism that has had millions of years to evolve a beautifully complex brain designed to be naturally curious, playful, vital, creative, … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood, Education, Infancy, Middle Childhood, Miseducation of America
Tagged child, children, education, learning, teaching
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