The Growing Child Must Derive A Vitalizing

Children Love And Want To Be Loved And They Very Much Prefer The Joy Of Accomplishment To The Triumph Of Hateful Failure. Do Not Mistake A Child For His Symptom.

Play Is The Most Natural Method Of Self-healing That Childhood Affords.

These Same Experiences Make Of The Sequence Of Life Cycles A Generational Cycle, Irrevocably Binding Each Generation To Those That Gave It Life And To Those For Whose Life It Is Responsible. Thus, Reconciling Lifelong Generativity And Stagnation Involves The Elder In A Review Of His Or Her Own Years Of Active Responsibility For Nurturing The Next Generations, And Also In An Integration Of Earlier-life Experiences Of Caring And Of Self-concern In Relation To Previous Generations.

When We Looked At The Life Cycle In Our 40s, We Looked To Old People For Wisdom. At 80, Though, We Look At Other 80-year-olds To See Who Got Wise And Who Not. Lots Of Old People Don't Get Wise, But You Don't Get Wise Unless You Age.

In The Social Jungle Of Human Existence, There Is No Feeling Of Being Alive Without A Sense Of Identity.