Jess Lair Quotes

children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

Children are not tings to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

In his book I Ain’t Much, Baby—But I’m All I Got, the psychologist Jess Lair comments: “Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

Children are not things to be molded, But are people to be unfolded.”—Jess Lair The Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods from Birth to Six Months

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. —Jess Lair