There are children who have never known their parents, who do not even know who they are, but they never doubt that they had a father and a mother. In fact, many spend their lives hoping to find them and looking for the slightest clue to their ...
On the pretext that very young children would not be aware of what is happening around them, parents are careless – they allow them to witness their lies, their upsets, their violence… And then they imagine they will be capable of bringing them up! ...
Is it possible for future parents to influence their child's physical and psychic structure through a work of imagination, at the time of conception and then during the pregnancy? Yes, but first they must want their child to hold the highest ideal ...
Sometimes, members of your family who have left the earth – especially your parents and grand-parents – may come to visit you, for they have not forgotten you and wish to know what you have been doing since they have been gone. If they see you are ...
At the end of the school year, it is rare for educators and teachers not to complain of exhaustion. It is not that dealing with children is so very tiring, but, if you see your job only as a means of earning a living, you will mainly experience its ...
Adults claim to love their children and be concerned about their upbringing, but they do not always know how to behave with them, and in particular they are not careful in the way they speak to them. So many parents and educators constantly tell ...
Educating a child does not consist solely in trying to instil good moral principles into them. How can parents believe they are educating their children, when the children witness them lying or being irritable or violent? Babies have been known to ...
We know that when a child has been abandoned, when there are no adults around him to teach him to stand up or to speak, he behaves like an animal. He continues to walk on all fours and make inarticulate sounds, and it is very difficult, sometimes ...
You cannot blame parents for desiring their children's wellbeing and success; they are obviously motivated by love. But their love is not always enlightened, because it does not envision their children's true evolution. Of course, parents need not ...
Why are there so many suicides and accidental deaths among adolescents? The transition from childhood to adolescence is marked not only by great physiological changes but by psychological and spiritual ones as well; and as adolescents do not know ...
Parents as well as teachers are responsible for our children, which is good, since children need to be looked after in order to develop. But have these parents and teachers first worked on themselves and demonstrated that they are equal to the task? ...
How many people who are dissatisfied with their circumstances, blame their parents for not understanding them, for not providing them with the conditions they needed to flourish, or for setting such deplorable examples. It may be true, but they ...
If we compare humans to animals, it's surprising how quickly a little animal grows and becomes independant, while human children grow so slowly. This slowness is due to human nature's extreme wealth and complexity. Physically and psychically ...
Having observed some negative effects of the influence of families on their children, some thinkers have claimed to remedy this by calling the family's presence into question: in their opinion, it was no longer the family's role to ensure the ...
When parents have given their child an order, they must insist that the child obey, otherwise the child will find that its parents have neither strength of will nor steadfastness, and this image it forms of them will hinder its development. ...
Fathers and mothers who want their children to have an easy, rich and successful life are obviously motivated by love; but their love is blind because it does not consider their children's true evolution. Of course, this does not mean that they ...
