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.

Children do better when they feel better.

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

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

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

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.