Top 16 Madeline Levine Quotes
#1. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.
Madeline Levine
#2. Until they enter elementary school most youngsters are motivated by the challenge itself, not by stars or grades or rewards. This is called mastery motivation and is the form of learning most likely to lead to both engagement and persistence, and ultimately to expertise.
Madeline Levine
#3. The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages ... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.
Madeline Levine
#5. When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.
Kent Nerburn
#6. The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention.
Madeline Levine
#7. And it is unstructured play that provides the greatest opportunities for kids to be curious, creative, spontaneous, and collaborative.
Madeline Levine
#8. There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.
Thornton T. Munger
#9. Remember, our very first job is to appropriately monitor our teen's safety. After all, if we're not successful at that, then any discussion of cognitive skills is irrelevant.
Madeline Levine
#10. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.
Madeline Levine
#11. Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.
Madeline Levine
#12. Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.
Madeline Levine
#13. The sixties?All right if you happened to have money. All right if you happened to know the right people. All right if you happened to live in London. But if you were poor, working class and lived anywhere else, then forget it. The sixties never happened.
C.J. Stone
#14. There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.
Madeline Levine
#15. We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.
Madeline Levine
#16. Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
Coco Chanel
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