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Children Quotes by Haim Ginott
- Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
- 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…
- A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.
- Only if a child feels right can he think right.
- Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
- 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…
- 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…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough