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“The fact that the brain develops sequentially—and also so rapidly in the first years of life—explains why extremely young children are at such great risk of suffering lasting effects of trauma: their brains are still developing. The same miraculous plasticity that allows young brains to quickly learn love and language, unfortunately, also makes them highly susceptible to negative experiences as well.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Parents who speak with their children about their feelings have children who develop emotional intelligence and can understand their own and other people’s feelings more fully.”
― The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
― The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
“To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“our system of race is like a two-headed hydra. One head consists of outright racism—the oppression of some people on grounds of who they are. The other head consists of white privilege—a system by which whites help and buoy each other up. If one lops off a single head, say, outright racism, but leaves the other intact, our system of white over black/brown will remain virtually unchanged. The predicament of social reform, as one writer pointed out, is that “everything must change at once.” Otherwise, change is swallowed up by the remaining elements, so that we remain roughly as we were before.”
― Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
― Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
“Working with traumatized and maltreated children has also made me think carefully about the nature of humankind and the difference between humankind and humanity. Not all humans are humane. A human being has to learn how to become humane. That process—and how it can sometimes go terribly wrong—is another aspect of what this book is about. The stories here explore the conditions necessary for the development of empathy—and those that are likely, instead, to produce cruelty and indifference. They reveal how children’s brains grow and are molded by the people around them. They also expose how ignorance, poverty, violence, sexual abuse, chaos and neglect can wreak havoc upon growing brains and nascent personalities.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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