01UndatedIt's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
02UndatedChildren 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.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
04UndatedGenius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
05UndatedThere is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
06UndatedThe more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
07UndatedWhen we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
08UndatedBabies 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.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
09UndatedMen have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.Erik Erikson / quote ↗
