Ali Shukoohy

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
― Haim Ginott

“Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.”
― Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated

“I’ve come to a 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 a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. 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.”
― Haim Ginott

“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”
― Haim G. Ginott