Mothers and Glenn Doman: A Photo Journal

“Every baby arrives equipped with a mother—there is good reason for that.” 

GD

“We believe that mothers make the best mothers and fathers make the best fathers.”  

GD

"Children are the greatest gift that we will ever receive. The world over, we cherish our children. Mothers have performed heroic acts and displayed incredible physical strength to protect their children from physical harm. Universally, parents want their children to accomplish more in life than they ever accomplished." 

GD

“From the moment a baby is born, a struggle begins. Mother does her best to keep her baby close to her, and the world does its best to separate mother from baby. This is a mistake because mothers are the best teachers in the world for their babies. It starts with the well-meaning hospital staff who often whisks the baby away to a nursery far from mother. Later, there are the professionals who are certain that a two-year-old is better off in a day care center than home with mother. On their heels comes the school system where the child will spend the better part of his life to age 18. Educators now say they want the child at the age of five, four, or even three. There are strong forces at work to separate mother from child, and most people have come to regard each of these encroachments on mother’s domain as normal. It is as if that is the way it has always been.”  

GD

"She looks into the eyes of her baby and to her utter astonishment and her amazement she sees an intelligence for which no one has prepared  her. Father sees it too. For a moment they are stunned. They are overwhelmed by the potential they sense in the baby, and by the responsibility they have undertaken. They make a thousand unspoken promises to their new baby." 

GD

"Professional mothers are fulltime mother who approach their work with the same passion and dedication that other top-flight professionals devote to being engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc. If you are a fulltime mother, you are a member of the oldest and most honorable profession in the world... You have the most important job in the world - protect it."  

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"They love their children very much (as do almost all parents). They respect their children and their innate potential to be magnificent. They enjoy their children immensely. They have given their children a higher priority in their lives in terms of time and energy than have most families. They do not feel this to be a sacrifice of themselves but rather a high privilege. They think that it is more fun to teach their kids than it is to bowl or go to the movies. They are more interested in their kids than the are in the latest craze in television shows... They are lively, bright, aware, happy, effective people who are less involved in worrying about the world and a good deal more involved in doing something about it by raising happier, more effective kids." 

GD

"Every mother who embarks upon this adventure expects to expand her tiny child's ability. She does this with such vim and vigor that she hardly takes the time to assess the changes that are taking palce in her own abilities and viewpoint, until one day when she finds herself happily preparing to teach her child calculus or nuclear physics and is brought up short by her own bravado. She is startled, but not for long. 'I always secrety knew I could learn anything' she says to herself and gets back to work teaching her child."  

GD

"...we have the thrill and honor of taking this superb learner and gently lifting him onto our shoulders. What broad shoulders our professional parents have and what a panoramic view they provide for our tiny kids." 

GD

"Mother have known more about babies than anyone else since the world began. It is mothers who have successfully brought us from prehistoric caves to the present." 

GD

“After almost half a century of nose-to-nose experience with mothers, we have learned that parents should never do anything with their babies that they do not understand and agree with one hundred percent. If parents do something with a child that they do not understand fully, it could actually be dangerous for the child. If parents do something with their child that they do not agree with completely, they will not do it well. If someone must decide what is best for children, thank heaven it is parents who have that right. Parents, and only parents, should decide what is best for their children. They make the best decisions.”  

GD

“Mothers are the very best teachers. They know their children better than anyone else, and they love their children better than anyone else. And it turns out that kids are pretty crazy about their mothers too.”  

GD

"It must by now be obvious to the reader, as it is to all those who know the staff of The Institutes, that we have for all babies' ability to learn and all parents' ability to teach, a respect that borders on reverence."  

GD

“Is it a revolutionary idea that parents and children belong together? Children don’t think so. If every baby had his way, he would have mother or father by his side every minute of every day.” 

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“In contrast to [the] patterns of modern society, all mothers know intuitively that the first six years of a child’s life are the most important. In this they are absolutely correct.”  

GD

“Every mother, whether she is new to the job or highly experienced, has a marvelous ability and opportunity to observe her baby, and then to act intuitively based on her observations. On her worst day she will do this better with her own baby than most others would do on their best days.”  

GD

"The means to accomplish this gentle revolution are simple, straightforward, and clear. Parents. Parents are not the problem in the world of kids, they are the answer." 

GD

Happy Mother's Day, to all the amazing mothers in the world who often go unnoticed or unappreciated for all you do. You are your child's best teacher and more important than you will ever know. Don't let anyone try and convince you otherwise.

"And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thouwalkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." 

Deuteronomy 11:19