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
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.
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.
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.
wise teenager eye
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.
teenager identity tasks
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.