Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
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. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
