Elevating Child Care Quotes

“Once I’ve fulfilled my child’s basic needs, my only responsibility regarding feelings is to accept and acknowledge them.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“We all need someone who understands.” - Magda Gerber”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Toddlers test, and that’s exactly what they are supposed to do. A toddler has failed if he makes life too easy for us.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“So I’ve made a special effort to accept all my children’s emotions, especially their anger…to let them know that it’s always okay for them to be mad at me. I’m not going anywhere.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“One of the most profound lessons I’ve learned since becoming a mom -- reinforced by observing hundreds of other parents and babies interact — is that there is a self-fulfilling prophecy to the way we view our babies: If we believe them to be helpless, dependent, needy (albeit lovely) creatures, their behavior will confirm those beliefs. Alternatively, if we see our infants as capable, intelligent, responsive people ready to participate in life, initiate activity, receive and return our efforts to communicate with them, then we find that they are all of those things.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“People will forget what you said; people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Einstein once said, “I believe in intuition and inspiration…. At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.” –Jean Piaget”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Wouldn’t life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“We’re taught how to how to acquire things, not what to do when we lose them.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Boundaries and discipline, when offered non-punitively and in the context of empathy and respect, are gifts we should feel proud of and one of the highest forms of love.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Sportscasters don’t judge, fix, shame, blame or get emotionally involved. They just keep children safe, observe and state what they see, affording children the open space they need to continue struggling until they either solve the problem or decide to let go and move on to something else: “You’re working very hard on fitting that puzzle piece. You seem frustrated.” “Savannah, you had the bear and now Ally has it. You both want to hold it. Savannah is trying to get it back… Ally, I won’t let you hit.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

“Yes, it is counter-intuitive to refrain from assisting a child!   But when we help a child to do something she might be able to do for herself, we are robbing her of a vital learning experience and ultimately not helping at all.”
― Janet Lansbury, Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting