Jonathan Crisp

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
― L.R. Knost, Whispers Through Time: : Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood

“The constructive way to handle anger is to limit our expression of it, and when we calm down, to use it diagnostically: what is so wrong in our life that we feel furious, and what do we need to do to change the situation?”
― Laura Markham, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting