Alfie Kohn Quotes About Children

• Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Taken, Rights

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, ASCD

• Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Order, Feet

• The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Book, Numbers

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.110, Beacon Press

• If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Mistake, Feelings

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Learning, Decision

  "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.

• If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Tasks, Problem

• Algunos partidarios de estrategias [más] coercitivas suponen que los niños se desbocarán si no se les controla. Sin embargo, los niños para los que esto es cierto suelen ser los que están acostumbrados a ser controlados: aquellos en los que no se confía, a los que no se dan explicaciones, a los que no se anima a pensar por sí mismos, a los que no se ayuda a desarrollar e interiorizar buenos valores, etcétera. El control genera la necesidad de más control, que se utiliza para justificar el uso del control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Correr, Niños, Pensar

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• La mayoría de nosotros protestaría diciendo que, por supuesto, queremos a nuestros hijos sin condiciones. Pero lo que cuenta es cómo se ven las cosas desde la perspectiva de los niños

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Strings Attached, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press

• In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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