Quotes About Nurture

Tran Van Hay soigne

At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.

But science and experience reveal that with self-reflection and understanding, non-ideal patterns we've adopted from our own pasts can be transformed. Be patient with yourself and with your family members. With kindness and understanding, to yourself and to others, change can be nurtured and good things can emerge.

what you do and don't value, and what you do and don't give attention to, will impact who your child becomes.

How we treat our children changes who they are and how they will develop. Their brains need our parental involvement. Nature needs nurture.

the moments you are just trying to survive are actually opportunities to help your child thrive.

It's not how our parents raised us, or how many parenting books we've read. It's actually how well we've made sense of our experiences with our own parents and how sensitive we are to our children that most powerfully influence our relationship with our kids,

other words, on top of our basic brain architecture and our inborn temperament, parents have much they can do to provide the kinds of experiences that will help develop a resilient, well-integrated brain.

parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.

It is unhelpful to pit these interdependent processes against each other in simplistic debates such as experience versus biology, or nature versus nurture. In fact, experience shapes brain structure. Experience is biology.

los momentos en que sólo intentas sobrevivir en realidad son oportunidades para ayudar a tu hijo a progresar.

Family is hugely important to me, because like I said, it takes a village to raise a child. That's my theme. That's how I really feel about life.

I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.

Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

Comfort and familiarity are not what God points us toward. Jesus isn't in the business of flying to and fro for the rest of our lives, hand-delivering spiritual baby food to us.

You have the power to water the good seeds and cultivate the good seeds and pull out any weeds that come from seeds you don't want.

of the diverse systems within our brains. Optimal sculpting of the prefrontal cortex through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment problem solving. We can now add a corollary to Darwin's survival of the fittest: Those who are nurtured best survive best.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

Women have no wilderness in them,They are provident instead,Content in the tight hot cell of their heartsTo eat dusty bread.