Haim Ginott
Haim Ginott
Haim G. Ginottwas a school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child, stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today. This book sets out to give "specific advice derived from basic communication principles that will guide parents in living with children in mutual respect and dignity."...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionEducator
CountryIsrael
Haim Ginott quotes about
education teacher hurt
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
hope wisdom responsibility
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.
teacher children heart
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.
teacher appreciation teaching
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
hurt children disappointment
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.
inspirational children becoming
Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
parent personality events
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.
teacher children emotion
A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.
happy-mothers-day young-generation parent
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
parenting punishment opposites
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
discipline pressure praise
To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise
inspirational teacher children
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 decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
teenager anxiety insecurity
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.
wise teenager fighting
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.