Famous quotes containing the word hitting:
“It is not [the toddlers] job yet to consider other peoples feelings, he has to come to terms with his own first. If he hits you and you hit him back to show him what it feels like, you will have given a lesson he is not ready to learn. He will wail as if hitting was a totally new idea to him. He makes no connections between what he did to you and what you then did to him; between your feelings and his own.”
—Penelope Leach (20th century)
“Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your readers mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you cant help hitting it.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“The toddlers wish to please ... is a powerful aid in helping the child to develop a social awareness and, eventually, a moral conscience. The childs love for the parent is so strong that it causes him to change his behavior: to refrain from hitting and biting, to share toys with a peer, to become toilet trained. This wish for approval is the parents most reliable ally in the process of socializing the child.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)