you need to respond in this way, I would like to suggest several ways in
which you need to say an unequivocal “yes”:
Say yes to effort and hush to achievement Say yes to searching and
hush to finding
Say yes to not knowing and hush to always knowing
Say yes to other ways of knowing and hush to rote learning
Say yes to struggling and hush to succeeding
Say yes to curiosity and hush to attachment to the already-
discovered
Say yes to being and hush to doing
Say yes to imagination and hush to imitating
Say yes to taking a risk and hush to playing it safe Say yes to crying
and hush to holding it in
Say yes to generosity and hush to greed Say yes to play and hush to
pressure
Say yes to creativity and hush to bookishness Say yes to playing and
hush to winning.
TIMING IS CRUCIAL
One of the mistakes we often make is to try to teach our children
appropriate behavior when we are in the heat of battle with them. While
it’s essential to stop inappropriate behavior when it’s happening, our
children may not be able to learn the deeper meaning behind their
behavior until they have calmed down. This means we have to wait for a
fitting time, perhaps later in the day or week, to revisit the behavior with