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Life is to be lived NOW, not in the past and lived in the future only as a present challenge. |
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Trust between child and adult is essential. |
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Competence makes a difference, and children and adolescents should be helped to be good at something and especially at schoolwork. |
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Time is an ally, working on the side of growth in a period of development when life has a tremendous forward thrust. |
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Self control can be taught and children and adolescents helped to manage their behavior without the development of psychodynamic insight. |
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Intelligence can be taught, Intelligence is a dynamic, evolving, and malleable capacity for making good choices in living. |
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Feelings should be nurtured, shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary, expressed when too long repressed and explored with trusted others… |
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The group is very important to young people and it can become a major source of instruction in growing up. |
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Ceremony and ritual give order, stability and confidence to troubled children and adolescents, whose lives are often in considerable disarray. |
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The body is the armature of the self, the physical self around which the psychological self is constructed. |
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Communities are important for children and youth, but the uses and benefits of the community must be experienced to be learned. |
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A child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow. |
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Excerpted from Hobbs, 1982, Habel, 1988. (Hobbs credits the idea of the importance of joy in the life of children to the Russian Educator and youth worker, Anton Makarenko.)ist. |
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