Haim Ginott Quotes About Parents

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

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  Children, Nice, Self Esteem

• 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 emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

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  Hurt, Children, Disappointment

• 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 adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

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  Children, Parenting, Discipline

• 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 of children.

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  Teacher, Children, Heart

• Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

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  Parenting, Opposites, Punishment

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

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  Happy Mothers Day, Children, Parenting

• 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 affects personality for better or for worse.

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  Personality, Parent, Events

• Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

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  Wise, Teenager, Fighting

• 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 to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.

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  Children, Real, Sleep

• 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 when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Heart, Skills

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