When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return … - Haim Ginott

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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

Haim Ginott

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

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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 are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.

Children, Heart, Ordinary, Parent, Skills, Style

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

Identity, Personal, Search, Tasks, Teenager

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

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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

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

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