Laura van den Berg Quotes

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Early youth is a baffling time.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.