Jane Nelsen Quotes

• Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

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  Children   Crazy   Order  

  Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. (2011). “Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills”, p.303, Ballantine Books

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• What we do is never as important as how we do it.

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  Important   Action  

  Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. (2011). “Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills”, p.61, Ballantine Books

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• One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

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  People   Parent   Perception  

  Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Ann Duffy (2007). “Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child”, p.44, Harmony

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• Children do better when they feel better.

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  Children   Feel Better   Feels  

  Jane Nelsen, Steven Foster (2011). “Positive Discipline for Children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful”, p.47, Harmony

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• When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

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  Reality   Trying   Energy  

  Jane Nelsen (1986). “Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships”, Empowering People Books Tapes

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