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“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
― The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
― The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss
“Any time your child pushes your buttons, he’s showing you an unresolved issue from your own childhood.”
― Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
― Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”
― Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
― Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in which we can linguistically communicate to others—as well as to ourselves—the sometimes hidden contents of our implicitly remembering minds. Stories make available perspectives on the emotional themes of our implicit memory that may otherwise be consciously unavailable to us. This may be one reason why journal writing and intimate communication with others, which are so often narrative processes, have such powerful organizing effects on the mind: They allow us to modulate our emotions and make sense of the world.”
― The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
― The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
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