The skill of acknowledgment applies to feelings--not to misbehavior. When a child is using the living-room wall as a mural for his... Magic Markers, empathy is not in order--clear limits are. This is not the time to say, "You wish you could use Magic Marker on the walls." This is the time to state firmly, "Markers are to be used only on paper."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been l...eft in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Magic is akin to science in that it always has a definite aim intimately associated with human instincts, needs, and pursuits. The... magic art is directed towards the attainment of practical aims. Like other arts and crafts, it is also governed by a theory, by a system of principles which dictate the manner in which the act has to be performed in order to be effective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous..., in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child's future. A child's self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from... friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,... Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »