Quotes About Child

if the punishments a child has already received for their concerning behaviors haven't put an end to these behaviors, it must be because the punishments didn't cause the child enough pain. So, they add more pain.

because of maturation and/or because new skills and improved relationships were developed when the medication was being prescribed, it is sometimes possible to discontinue the medication. Ultimately, the question of whether a child should remain on medication must be continuously revisited.

Solutions arrived at through Plan A are not only unilateral, but they're also uninformed. With Plan A, you're not trying to find out what's making it hard for your child to meet a particular expectation, and you're not trying to address those factors. Uninformed solutions are shots in the dark. Better to take aim.

the child's initial response seldom provides a clear understanding of their concern or perspective, so you're going to need to probe for more information. I call this probing process "drilling," and there's no doubt that drilling is the hardest part of all of Plan B.

Strategy #3: Asking about the situational variability of the unsolved problem; in other words, why is the child meeting the expectation sometimes and not other times?

Strategy #6: Making a discrepant observation. This is where you're making an observation that differs from information that the child has already provided in the Empathy step.

Diagnoses can also be counterproductive in that they imply that the problem resides solely within the child and that it's the child who needs to be fixed. And, since diagnoses are simply categories containing lists of concerning behaviors, they may not be telling you anything about your child that you didn't already know.

Your child is lacking skills, not motivation.

that your child is already very motivated to do well and that his challenging episodes reflect a developmental delay in the skills of flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving.

we all just want attention, so that doesn't really distinguish your child from anyone else. If your child had the skills to seek attention adaptively, she would.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Caught on the thorns of our joys as we run. Emily, Emily, child of the sun.

Now, every child does have the necessary intelligence. You create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence rather than superimposing your rottenness on him.

ancient Celtic belief that when a child dies at birth, an angel throws a daisy down upon the earth to console the bereft parents.

The woman's goal seemed to be, "Don't teach the kid to challenge our assumptions (especially, if they're wrong or contradictory); instead, teach the child to roll over and be submissive.

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.

SCARLETT'S CHILD WAS A GIRL, a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey and absurdly like Frank.

The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.