Only if a child feels right can he think right..

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them..

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others..

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming..

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. ….

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager..

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a cris….

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts ….

I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents….

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task..

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modu….

How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very m….

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming..

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal..

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other..

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequ….

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults..

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my ….

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it..

When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's ….