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kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline

Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.

Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking

Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

Trust the gold: Humans are fundamentally good, creative, and whole. They have noble intentions. Harm is caused not by malice but rather by fear, desperation, and lack of skillfulness/choice in meeting one's needs— challenges that have been part of humankind for quite a long time. With the exception of extreme situations, I aspire to approach e... See more

Mindy Zhang • My Personal Values

TRUST: We are in a crisis of trust the world over. Parents are afraid, and that makes our children afraid — to be who they are, to take risks, to stand up against injustice. Trust has to start with us. When we’re confident in the choices we make as parents, we can then trust our children to take important and necessary steps toward empowerment and

Esther Wojcicki • How to Raise Happy and Successful Children: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

treating our children, not as they are, but as we hoped they would become.

Adele Faber • Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Proponents of Positive Discipline believe that most misbehavior stems from mistaken beliefs or goals in a child’s attempt to achieve belonging and significance. He thinks that his belonging or significance has either been threatened or destroyed and he is acting in a way to remedy the situation. This may be because he lacks the knowledge or skills ... See more

Samantha Joy • Discipline as Encouragement

A better approach is to proceed as if (however hard it may be to believe) the other person is simply unaware of the impact of their actions on you, and, being a good person, would certainly wish to change their behavior once they became aware of it.

Roger Fisher • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

They also taught me that often kids who act out are angry and hurting, so it was important to feel compassion for them too. They told me to tell bullies the truth and remind them that they could, and should, be better—that they were responsible for their choices. And they told me to seek the help of an authority figure rather than angrily mete out