Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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

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

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.

It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

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.

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

Children should be kept as normal as possible. At a very young age, they are not even aware of the happenings around them. You need to do whatever you can to grow them normally.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.