Positive Guidance Quotes

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind, genuine and honest, willing and able to see where her clients get stuck and gently help them recover their freedom. Better than a coach who gives you the answers, Dawn will help you find the answers to your life's dilemmas that are already within you.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

Children need models rather than critics.

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

The alternative to discipline is disaster

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

You could have a kid that is going to get in trouble a little bit, and you can teach them as much as you can, and hopefully they'll go the right way.

With the likes of social media and outside influences - we're going to be on telly a lot more - I think it's important that you listen to the right people, whether it's your team-mates, your parents, or your coaches, and don't take too much to heart.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

You have these kids trying to make these grown up decisions because nobody is talking to them. We're talking at them, but we're not listening to them.

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.