The Diary of a Young Girl tr. At a good Table we may go to School. Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence. When an order is given to someone under hypnosis that he do something at a certain time after he is brought back to consciousness he will do his best to conform to the order however absurd it might be. If he is prevented from fulfilling the order, he will have stirrings of acute guilt and anxiety.
Most parents expect a great deal from their children when they grow up. . . .
They reward their children more for trying than winning. Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself. The American Notebooks ed. Because I love all people. Because it's a teapot.