Ross W. Greene Quotes
No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.
Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.
It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.
We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.
If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.
My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.
When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.
The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.
Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.
If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.
There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.
It's so crucial to really get a good handle on what's getting in the way of the kid completing a homework assignment. It can be so many things.
We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.
Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.