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Top 10 Jean Liedloff Quotes (2024 Update)

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.”

1. “Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Nobody’s born rotten. You just don’t have bad kids. It’s not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.”

2. “Nobody’s born rotten. You just don’t have bad kids. It’s not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

3. “I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”

4. “Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.”

5. “A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.”

6. “We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

7. “Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.”

8. “A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me – and this is in retrospect – that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.”

9. “As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me – and this is in retrospect – that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child’s mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.”

10. “Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child’s mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “It’s perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they’re all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.”

11. “It’s perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they’re all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.”

— Jean Liedloff

Jean Liedloff Quote: “Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.”

12. “Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.”

— Jean Liedloff

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