Behavior Quote by Sandra Scarr

If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test…

— Stanley Greenspan

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in…

— Jane Clayson Johnson

“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to be able…

— David Brooks

“Unless there was an open heart, and caring hands, and listening ears, the children will not be able to correct their steps alone, or…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the…

— Maria Montessori

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

— Anonymous

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing…

— Selma Fraiberg

By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by…

— Magda Gerber

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

— Naomi Wolf

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency…

— Abraham Maslow

“When is challenging behavior most likely to occur? When the demands being placed on a kid exceed his capacity to respond adaptively.”

— Ross W. Greene

You can rear children in an antagonistic environment or in a facilitative one with a good combination of love and discipline. It's about supporting…

— Christiana Figueres