No Pressure or Anything....

I copied this from a good friend's blog. Such a great reminder:


“As a mother, I have come to a frightening conclusion.



I am the decisive element in the home. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.


As a teacher I possess 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 humor, hurt 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 de-humanized.”

- Haim Ginott’s Between Parent and Child