The child is like a newborn animal, because he cannot behave like the men around him. In the first two years the child’s behavior is like that of the...

The newborn child can do nothing alone. He has to be carried into the environment. If he is left alone, he cannot develop, but if he is brought into...

The newborn child is impotent, without the power of movement, without intelligence. He must create all this in the mystery of his life; something...

It is so helpful to a child when we try to understand his efforts. The child truly suffers when he cannot make himself understood and this suffering...

This explosion [of language] occurs all at once. Psychologists have counted one to three hundred new words in a week. The child becomes richer from...

We must speak clearly to the child, give him the right words and repeat them often for him. In this way we can stimulate the explosion into language...

At the age of one, after this first intentional word, the child reaches another stage of consciousness which is of the greatest importance – he...

The newborn child shows a sudden, energetic, marvelous development in the first period; after that, his development is less impressive. The greatest...

While language is formed from birth to one year, without the conscious will of the child being engaged, from one to two years of age language is...

This first year seems to be dedicated by nature to fixing and reproducing, through the delicate movements of these coordinated fibers, the sounds of...