A complete need should not exist. . . love, life in common with loved ones?
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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.
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.
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 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.
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.
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
You need seek God neither below or above. He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.