« How is the healthy little child that the mother treated from the beginning as a person with her own rights? Is he simply kind, wise and obedient? The answer is: no. The normal child has a personal view of life from the beginning. `...` In fact, they are plagues. But they bear witness to spontaneous and absolutely sincere loving tendencies. »

« Jung has done a useful job of drawing our attention to the fact that human beings continue to grow in all respects until the moment of their death, except to the extent that they remain prisoners of the rigidity of their defences. »

« Some children are conscientious objectors in this regard, when `the marks of politeness` do not want to say anything for them. Also don't forget or despise the innate moral sense of your children. Perhaps we sometimes forget the significance of the fact that one of the very first games is to build, despite the fact that small children are so close to the great pleasure that belongs to impulsive destruction. If, in each child, you allow their own right to dominate to develop, you will help them. There will be disagreement between your right to dominate and his, but it is natural and it is much better than imposing yourself on your child under the pretext that you know best. You have a better reason, which is that you also like your own way of doing things. Let your child have a corner of his in the room, or a cupboard, or a piece of the wall to soil him, put him away or decorate him according to his mood, his fantasy, his whim. Each of your children has the right to a piece of your home, which he can say is his and he also has the right, every day, to a little of your time (and a little bit of that of Dad's), the time he can count on and during which you are in his world. Of course, the other extreme doesn't make sense when a mother, who doesn't have a personal way of life, lets her child do what she wants. You see that sometimes and then no one, not even the child, is happy. »