behavioral guidance Quotes

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

I think it's just important for people to lead by example.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

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

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.

I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.

Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.