Developmental Psychology Quotes
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“Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.”
― Games People Play
― Games People Play
“The truth is that bilingual babies are like machines.”
― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“He saw those who had been delicately nurtured, and tenderly brought up, cheerful under privations, and superior to suffering, that would have crushed many of a rougher grain, because they bore within their own bosoms the material of happiness, contentment, and peace.”
― The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
― The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
“Have no fear, most of the Indigo children that are struggling are the children that have had a very difficult time trying to live up to societies Indigo myth that developed around them”
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“..children only begin to understand differences in desires when they are about eighteen months old...Toddlers are systematically testing the dimensions on which their desires and the desires of others may be in conflict... The terrible twos reflects a genuine clash between children's need to understand other people and their need to live happily with them.”
― The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
― The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

“Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!”
― The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
― The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

“A “life of value,” as I see it, has two parts: The first is about one fulfilling oneself and finding meaning by prioritizing, or living the values that they authentically possess. When one’s life is consistent with what they truly value, then life just “feels right.” But beyond a more self-oriented approach to finding happiness and fulfillment, a good life is making positive differences to those in the family, the community, the country, and the world.”
― Wisdom: A Very Valuable Virtue That Cannot Be Bought
― Wisdom: A Very Valuable Virtue That Cannot Be Bought
“Black-Liberians has subjected and mistreated each other before some of the Foreigners ever got hold. The problems that exist are not with Foreigners but is rooted in our approach and how we come to treat each other.”
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“Nelly does not yet know that she has taken the first step on a journey that will change her life and relentlessly open up borders that she thought were impenetrable.”
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“What makes the terrible twos so terrible is not that the babies do things you don't want them to do --- one-year-olds are plenty good at that --- but that they do things because you don't want them to.”
― The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
― The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and everyday world you've long since taken for granted. Revel in that most mysterious and marvelous thing called maturation. Revel in their infinite capacity to unconditionally trust and love you as no other living thing possibly could. And when you catch yourself taking that for granted, pause. Breathe them in - and revel in the never failing ways your children just keep it -and you - real.”
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“One of the primary jobs for a baby during the first months of learning is to build what we call a sound inventory of the language to which he or she is exposed.”
― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
“Developmental psychology is a metatheory that is built on the idea that mental processes and behavior change over time, from one mental process to another in a progressive manner. Mental processes are built from and upon previous ones. Behaviors are built from and upon previous ones.”
― Psychology For Dummies
― Psychology For Dummies

“We now know that there is a critical period for language development. If you do not learn to speak as a youngster, you may never learn to speak. The babbling-cooing between baby and mother is a proto-language developed on the way to structuring specific facial muscles: the shapes that the tongue, lips, cheek and jaw will make and the ear will process in the construction of language. The baby is repeating the sounds she or he hears. It takes a lot of practice to get your tongue, mouth, jaw and cheek muscles to coordinate and accurately reflect back what is heard.”
― Bodies
― Bodies

“For a baby to thrive she or he has to be more than fed and kept clean. She or he needs to be held and to be engaged with as a living baby. This last thought might sound a bit mad. Of course a baby is alive. But if a baby receives only perfunctory care, if her or his needs for food and water and changing are met in a production-line manner, as happened for the many abandoned babies in the Romanian orphanes after Ceausescu was toppled, she or he may not thrive; she may die.”
― Bodies
― Bodies

“Most instincts are allied to specialized organs, it is true, but it is nonetheless true that perception and acquired behavior, including the higher types of operative intelligence, do, in a more supple way, manifest certain functional possibilities or "reaction norms" of the anatomical and physiological structure of the species. In a word, the general coordinations of action upon which the building up of most basic types of knowledge is conditional, presuppose not only nervous coordinations but coordinations of a much more deep-seated kind, those which are, in fact, interactions dominating the entire morphogenesis.”
― Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes
― Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes

“Cognitive processes seem, then, to be at one and the same time the outcome of organic autoregulation, reflecting its essential mechanisms, and the most highly differentiated organs of this regulation at the core of interactions with the environment, so much so that, in the case of man, these processes are being extended to the universe itself.”
― Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes
― Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes
“Releasing what no longer serves us isn't a sign of weakness, it's a courageous step towards embracing our own happiness and fulfillment.”
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“In a use-it-or-lose-it fashion, the new frontal lobe connections we use are preserved and quickened. Those we don't use just waste away through pruning. We become what we hear and see and do every day. …Twentysomethings who use their brains by engaging with good jobs and real relationships and the 'real world' are learning the language of adulthood just when their brains are primed to learn it.”
― Attached, The Defining Decade, How to Talk to Anyone, Make it Happen 4 Books Collection Set
― Attached, The Defining Decade, How to Talk to Anyone, Make it Happen 4 Books Collection Set

“Lessons happen at every age, but twentysomethings take these difficult moments particularly hard. Remember the 'uneven' twentysomething brain from a couple of chapters ago? The one in which the hot, reactive, emotional part of the brain is fully developed while the cool, rational frontal lobe where we counteract emotion with reason is still wiring up? That's the brain that twentysomethings take to work every day and this is why young workers like Danielle often respond emotionally, rather than rationally, when things at the office go wrong. … With age comes what is known as the ‘positivity effect.’ We become more interested in positive information, and our brains react less strongly to what negative information we do encounter.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“Healthy brain development depends on getting the right experiences at the right age and in the right order.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Prestige-based social media platforms have hacked one of the most important learning mechanisms for adolescents, diverting their time, attention, and copying behavior away from a variety of role models with whom they could develop a mentoring relationship that would help them succeed in their real-world communities. Instead, beginning in the early 2010s, millions of Gen Z girls collectively aimed their most powerful learning systems at a small number of young women whose main excellence seems to be amassing followers to influence. At the same time, many Gen Z boys aimed their social learning systems at popular male influencers who offered them visions of masculinity that were also quite extreme and potentially inapplicable to their daily lives.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Synchronous~ face-to-face, physical interactions and rituals are a deep, ancient, and underappreciated part of human evolution. Adults enjoy them, and children need them for healthy development.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“…adolescence is not necessarily an especially stressful time. Rather, it is a time when the brain is more vulnerable to the effects of sustained stressors, which can tilt the adolescent into mental disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“As we began using fire to cook our food, our jaws and guts reduced in size because cooked foods are so much easier to chew and digest. Our brains grew larger because the race for survival was won no longer by the fastest or strongest but by those most adept at learning. Our planet-changing trait was the ability to learn from each other and tap into the common pool of knowledge our ancestors and community had stored. Chimpanzees do very little of this. Human childhood extended to give children time to learn.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“A wiser view requires a wider lens. Yes, parents are responsible for their children; no, they did not create the world in which they must parent them.”
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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