"To judge what is truly harmful and not in a child, family, or community's best interests requires a deep understanding of the perspective of the person or family you are working with and the meanings behind their behaviors."
- Janet Gonzalez-Mena (DIVERITSITY AND DISCIPLINE)
"Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness."
- Janet Gonzalez-Mena (Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education (5th Edition))
"Development is a continuous process; experiences at any given age are affected by and built on experiences that have come before"
-Edward Zigler, 1983, (Discerning the future of early childhood intervention)
“I have long believed that the development of a child does not begin the day he is born -or at age three - but much earlier, during the formative years of his parents”
- Edward Zigler, (Childhood education, Volume 48, p 10, 1971), (PTA Magazine, volume 68, 1973).
"Parents need support, with a little bit resourse, access to the resourse, they can accomplish their goal"
- Leticia Lara LCSW (Laureate Education Inc. 2010, Foundation: Early Childhood Studies [DVD])