Jean Liedloff Quotes

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.