Possibilities
Every day life offers us a variety of possibilities. The events that life offers are not in
our control. How we respond to those events is in our control. The events and our
response equals the outcome.
E + R = O
Haim Ginott had a wonderful reflective piece for all of us who are educators and parents. “I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized." –Haim Ginott
Another teacher, 2,500 years ago, put it quite simply.
“Reaction is the Supreme Art in Life.” -Buddha
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