Barbara Nicholson > Quotes

“Adults teach children in three important ways: The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.”
― Barbara Nicholson, Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children

“With all the safety mechanisms in place to make cribs safer, still more infants die alone in cribs than in the family bed; yet, there has never been an outcry to ban cribs.”
― Barbara Nicholson, Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children

“When we spoil something, we deny it the conditions it requires. . . . The real spoiling of children is not in the indulging of demands or the giving of gifts, but in the ignoring of their genuine needs. —Gordon Neufeld, PhD, and Gabor Maté, MD, Hold On to Your Kids”
― Barbara Nicholson, Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children