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.
children nice self-esteem
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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.
children simple answers
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.
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.
children parenting discipline
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.
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.
children responsibility voice
Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
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.
children fall frustration
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.