Personality Is Formed Before The Acquisition Of Words
It is my desire to learn from the past and to avoid the mistake of overemphasizing particular intellectual or motor skills in early education which produced the kind troubled geniuses we discussed previously. To do this, we must make loving an integral part of childhood education.
Well-balanced personalities are those whose intellectual powers are combined with loving hearts. Loving hearts are not programmed into a child, but learned at the most basic level from the mother. A mother who wishes to produce a loving heart in her child will nurse, hug, hold caress and in every aspect of her contact with her child seek to tell that child that he or she is cherished, wanted, love. It is form these feelings that the child learns what it is like to feel satisfied physically and emotionally, and it will be upon these feelings that the child will base his or her later loving relationships. All this is learned through the mother-child bond long before verbal communication becomes possible.
The importance then of the mother-child bond cannot be stressed enough. The lessons learned from this tie will form the basis for the development of the rest of the personality, for how the child will interact with the world. Without a loving heart a child is handicapped in a fundamental way.
