Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.