Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.