Quotes About Nurture

The Drama of the Gifted Child. Sean's inborn gift coming into this life was his compassion and his sense that if he studied his mother enough and figured out what she needed, he could provide for her needs.

First, the good news about Cptsd. It is a learned set of responses, and a failure to complete numerous important developmental tasks. This means that it is environmentally, not genetically, caused. In other words, unlike most of the diagnoses it is confused with, it is neither inborn nor characterological. As such, it is learned. It is not inscribed in your DNA. It is a disorder caused by nurture [or rather the lack of it] not nature.

data became available from research that gave equal weight to both genetic and social influences on development.

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”

Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

He saw Ephraimís sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Josephís knees.

Then his sister said to Pharaohís daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their fatherís flock.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ëCarry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,í to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.

Ramoth, and Anem, together with their pasturelands.

Hukok, and Rehob, together with their pasturelands.

Kedemoth, and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands.

Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.