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Haim Ginott Biography

Haim G. Ginott (originally Ginzburg; 5 August 1922 – 4 November 1973) was a school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child, stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today. This book sets out to give "specific advice derived from basic communication principles that will guide parents in living with children in mutual respect and dignity."

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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 much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.

Answers, Become, Children, Help, Simple, Student

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

Children, Educates, Emotion, Modern, Teacher, Value

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

Children, Improve, Nice, Overhear, Self Esteem

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Hostile, Independence, Make, Self, Teenager, Toward

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

Carries, Comeback, Instant, Insult, Insults

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

Wise, Teenager, Fighting, Doom, Like, Parents

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Authority, Growth, Storm, Stress

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

Anxieties, Anxiety, Insecurity, Know, Teenager, Teenagers

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 modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Children, Fall, Frustration, Society, Gentle, Persuasion

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 crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Children, Humiliate, Inspirational, Instrument, Teacher, Tool

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.

Becoming, Hope, Inspirational, Ought, Treat, Wisdom

To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

Wise, Teenager, Eye, Time, Sense

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

Discipline, Pressure, Praise, Evaluative, Free

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 of children.

Children, Heart, Key, Original, Teacher

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. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Adult, Aggression, Assault, Children, Discipline, Parenting

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

Appreciation, Inadequate, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Times

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

Contrary, Misbehavior, Opposites, Parenting, Punishment, Reinforce

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

Identity, Personal, Search, Tasks, Teenager

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 daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Decisive, Education, Humiliate, Inspirational, Life, Teacher

When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

Children, Disappointment, Hurt, Strength