One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, …

- Jane Nelsen

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

- Jane Nelsen

What we do is never as important as how we do it.

- Jane Nelsen

Children do better when they feel better.

- Jane Nelsen

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

- Jane Nelsen