“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.”
"The infant's first social achievement, then, is his willingness to let the mother out of sight without undue anxiety or rage, because she has become an inner certainty as well as an outer predictability".
"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him".
"Children must eventually train their own children, and any impoverishment of their impulse life, for the sake of avoiding friction, must be considered a possible liability affecting more than one lifetime".
Brenda, Can't you relate to Erikson's quote on balance - especially now that we are adding our Master's work to the mix!
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