Children need permission to be selfish, to be greedy, to be ... - D.W. Winnicott

"Children need permission to be selfish, to be greedy, to be demanding—paradoxically, this leads to generosity."

D.W. Winnicott Kindness

Psychoanalyst British 1896–1971

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