Safe House Quotes

“When we don’t believe we have what it takes as parents, it’s too easy to reach for the outward affirmation that’ll prove to us, and everyone else, otherwise. So we end up valuing success over character. Feeling better over loving better.”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well

“Essentially, the sign of a healthy brain is when we’re able to verbalize what we’re feeling and why we’re feeling that way in a given situation. Did”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well

“A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine set out on a thirty-year study to find if a single related cause existed for five major issues: mental illness, hypertension, malignant tumors, coronary heart disease, and suicide. After studying 1,377 students over thirty years, the most prevalent single cause of all five illnesses was not what you may think. Diet? Exercise? Not at all. They found instead that the most significant predictor of these five tragedies was a lack of closeness to the parents, especially the father.24”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well

“In 2001, researchers at Emory University decided to assess the truth of the following observation: children who knew about their family history were better able to handle stress.”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well

“Research shows the more a parent coherently understands her own story, the more secure she is, and the more her brain is wired to self-regulate—in other words, display self-control.”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well