Your Competent Child Quotes

“Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child’s integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.”
― Jesper Juul, Your Competent Child: Toward a New Paradigm in Parenting and Education

“For the first time, we are ready to create genuine relationships that bestow equal dignity on men and women, and on adults and children. Never before in the history of mankind has this happened on such a large scale. The demand for equal dignity also means openness and respect for differences, which in turn means that we must abandon many of our impressions about what is generally right and wrong.”
― Jesper Juul, Raising Competent Children: A New Way of Developing Relationships With Children

“We often imagine that we’ll develop more quickly if conflicts reach a conclusion, but this is rarely the case. Often the quest for resolution”
― Jesper Juul, Your Competent Child: Toward a New Paradigm in Parenting and Education