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Don’t put children in roles. See them as whole people. Why should it be any different with a child who’s handicapped or sickly? My brother Donald was more than just his asthma or his ulcers.”
Adele Faber • Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Priority to speak would be given to those whose voices are not already represented in the decision-making process, such as schoolteachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, parents, union and nonunion workers, business people, artists, writers, children, social workers, experienced mediators, psychologists, and nurses.
Rachel Neumann • Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism
The parent can show her how to stand up for herself.
Adele Faber • Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
The best way to help a child “get over it” is to help him go through it.
Joanna Faber • How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)
call this principle “separating kids from their behavior”
Erica Reischer • What Great Parents Do: 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Be nonjudgmental. Avoid blaming anyone or any particular policy. Don’t assume you know the motives of any other participant,
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The Observer’s Insight
Roger Fisher • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
TAKE THE HEAT AND HOLD STEADY.