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Parent Quotes by 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 as…
- Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it…
- Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.
- 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…
- Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
- Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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