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Identify the triggers. Give learners the assignment of observing and noting triggers in their own environment for a few days, and then have them report back.
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Children who are intelligent, alert, attentive, sensitive, and completely attuned to the mothers well-being are entirely at her disposal.
Alice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Just as inattention diminishes in the presence of a warmly supportive adult, so does the hyperactivity.
Gabor Maté • Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
The goal is to teach our kids how to manage all of their feelings and perceptions and thoughts and urges; we are the primary vehicle for this teaching, not through lectures or logic, but through the experiences our children have with us.
Becky Kennedy • Good Inside
3. Coupled with acknowledgement of our child’s point-of-view and feelings (no matter how unreasonable they might seem).
Janet Lansbury • No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
The Good Mother’s guidance honors the child’s limitations without drawing attention to them and without an attitude that the child should be one step ahead of where he is. Skillful guidance feels comforting rather than controlling or invasive.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
Most parenting approaches focus not on the whole child, but on the child’s behaviors—and how parents should respond to particular kinds of behavior. And they suggest responses to behavior that are oriented to the child’s brain: reasoning, requesting, or offering incentives, rewards, or consequences.
Mona Delahooke • Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
A single misplaced response can shrivel a child’s spirit, whereas the right comment can encourage them to soar. In each moment, we can choose to make or break, foster or cause to freeze up.