Jean Liedloff > Quotes

“A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.”
― Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost

“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.”
― Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost

“Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”
― Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost

“A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.”
― Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost

“Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.”
― Jean Liedloff