Ross W. Greene Quotes

#1. Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

Ross W. Greene

#2. An explosive outburst - like other forms of maladaptive behavior - occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

Ross W. Greene

#3. A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.

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#4. The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

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#5. If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

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#6. The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion.

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#7. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.

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#8. We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.

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#9. 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.

Ross W. Greene