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Children need space to experiment in a world of mutable selves, relations, and institutions, and they need to be given the chance to build… ‘active trust’ born of mutual disclosure. – Anthony Giddens
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150 |
 |
A child is an exquisite attention-getting device, designed to sound an alarm at the first indication that he will be forgotten or relegated to a position where he does not count.
|
082 |
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A child’s ability to control his position and the attention of others is critical, much more important than control is for the average adult on an average day.
|
082 |
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Parents need to be parents, not friends, to their children.
|
014 |
 |
…children almost universally are also looking for loving correction.
|
036 |
 |
…one of the greatest gifts parents can give to their children is to take them seriously. – Satya Nadella
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168 |
 |
Studies show that divorce is sometimes less hard on children than their parents’ remarriage.
|
005 |
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In marriage, people have to sometimes use their power to get what they need. And estrangements from adult children sometimes force a spouse to use that power.
|
010 |
 |
Parent and child become strangers to each other in the absence of shared life experiences.
|
071 |
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…individual child therapy does little to penetrate the powerful way that one parent can negatively influence a child against the other parent.
|
071 |
