“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.” LongOpportunityParentDifficultGrowthTermStudentsCommunicationToolsPersonal GrowthCommittedLong TermColleaguesEngagingExpandingEducatorNonviolent CommunicationStrengtheningInvaluableDifficult Work Author:Ron Rubin
“Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.” HeartChildrenMotherNextFatherParentGrowthChallengesOvercomingTriumphHeartbeatMother And FatherChildren And ParentsHopefulnessNew Growth Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.” ShouldChildrenSometimesRunningAgeRememberParentGrowthActingKnownConflictExpectationsOneselfStemChildren And ParentsHub Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood
“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.” PeopleLooksAmericaScienceParentGrowthBornReligiousNiceDyingColorOceanHollywoodAimVictimTiredProfitCuriousFakeEnterpriseSpiteSunshineLos AngelesCollapseDragMultitudesDoomedCultBreezePioneersPoisonousHazeReligious CultsWildcatsChanging Colors Author:Louis Adamic
“Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.” WayYearsMayTwoDifferentIndividualEnergyParentGrowthSeeingPossibilityDifferent WaysTwo YearsCompetentPositive EnergyAssertivenessNew PossibilitiesTwo Year Olds Author:Fred Rogers
“Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?” ThinkingRealityJobsOrderNationsParentGrowthNaturalEuropeAcceptedNatural OrderSmall Jobs Author:Daniel Henninger
“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.” ChildrenImportantParentGrowthGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodDevelopmentConnectionsMy Children Author:Ziggy Marley
“One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.” WayKindChildrenOpportunityParentGrowthMoralLearning ExperienceMoral Growth Author:Michael Sandel
“What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.” ReasonAmericaParentGrowthClassRichNiceMiddleCollegeCaringEnvyReason WhyMiddle ClassUpbringingVery NiceNot Caring Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.” ChildrenDoeDifferentPlayHappensParentGrowthWatchesTeacherReturnAreasMuseumsNutritionDefinite Author:Howard Gardner
“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.” ChildrenTwoHardHomeCareMotherSocialParentGrowthHurtEconomicEaseBoardsHouseholdIt HurtsEconomic GrowthChild Care Author:Nina Turner
“Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.” WantChildrenHomeParentGrowthEmotionalPsychological Author:Dirk Benedict