Jonas Perez > Jonas's Quotes

“Angels grabbed my hands and feet and flung me with th’ damned,
To lie and let th’ fire burn and through our lungs expand.”
― Jonas Perez, Finibus

“I know that God is truth, he holds this still—
Beyond me he bears all his free will.”
― Jonas Perez, Finibus

“Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.”
― Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated

“Communication with children should be based on respect and on skill; it requires (a) that messages preserve the child's as well as the parent's self-respect; and (b) that statements of understanding precede statements of advice or instruction. Eric,”
― Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated

“What is the goal of parenting? It's to help a child grow up to be a decent human being, a mensch, a person with compassion, commitment, and caring.”
― Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated

“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
― Haim Ginott

“When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.”
― Haim G. Ginott

“While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.”
― Haim Ginott

“Children do not yearn for equal shares of love: They need to be loved uniquely, not uniformly. The emphasis is on quality, not equality. We”
― Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain