Suzy

“Children don’t just need to be loved; they need to know that nothing they do will change the fact that they’re loved.”
― Alfie Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting

“Here is a better suggestion: Reward your boys for expressing any emotion they experience. Anger—reward it. Sadness—reward it. Happiness—reward it. Fear—reward it. Boys should be encouraged to express all of their emotions and to fully experience them; if they don’t, the emotions will get bottled up and eventually come out in negative ways.”
― Dr. Max Wachtel, The One Rule For Boys: How Empathy And Emotional Understanding Will Improve Just About Everything For Your Son

“We also say, “Let boys be boys.” What we are really saying is, “Let boys behave badly.”
― Dr. Max Wachtel, The One Rule For Boys: How Empathy And Emotional Understanding Will Improve Just About Everything For Your Son

“Sometimes the alternative to black and white isn’t gray; it’s, say, orange.”
― Alfie Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting