"Words of Inspirtation and Motivation"

Abigail Eliot's Quote

"The most important thing is to enjoy children, to love them, be fair and just with them. If you do that, they're pretty likely to come out all right,"  Eliot, 1984

 

T. Berry Brazelton’s Quote

 

"I think the more stressed parents are, the more they need modeling opportunities, to model on somebody who knows how to handle a baby, to talk to a baby, to play with a baby. [Then] a parent feels, hey, I know what I'm doing. We're seeing that she really has the passion, she just needs the support to bring it back to the surface."
- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 "Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves."
- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 “Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.”
- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

The Toddler's Creed

The Toddler's Creed was composed by T. Berry Brazelton

 

 

 

Quotes from the media clip

 

 

“It was like the most joyful experience, where I felt that everything in me was being called on to teach and also it was very rewarding. It just made me feel whole.”- Lousie Derman-Sparks

“I learned it’s not all about you. You gotta take your ego out of it and think about what’s best for this child. And you care about them enough to help them transition to what’s next- what comes next and what’s best.” -Renatta M. Cooper