Child Quotes by Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

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…

— Haim Ginott

Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy…

— Haim Ginott

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and…

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

— Haim Ginott

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…

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

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

— Haim Ginott

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…

— Haim Ginott

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…

— Haim Ginott