“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” – Alfred Adler

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, “Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?” Her… Read more »

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.” – Annie Dillard

Eastern Hills Preschool (8445 Greiner Road( Williamsville, NY 14221 ((716) 688-2883 Eastern Hills Preschool views discipline as the opportunity to direct children toward respect for themselves and others. Both positive and negative feelings are normal and your child will be guided in learning to express these feelings in socially acceptable ways which are not destructive… Read more »

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who… Read more »

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” –Thomas a Kempis “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.” –John Ruskin “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from… Read more »

Gene mentions in his national seminar about the concept that the younger children you work with, the quicker a teacher needs to make a behavior training program work. Placing marbles in a bottle every time children in the classroom demonstrate responsible choices, with a goal of filling the jar so they can participate in a… Read more »

“Today’s kids desperately need moral guidance. They need to know right from wrong. And sadly, too many adults have abdicated their responsibility to teach kids values that respect life. In public schools, students are taught to ‘construct’ their own truths. And teachers are trained not to offer direction, lest they hamper a child’s autonomy. The… Read more »

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ~J. Askenberg ~ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~Henry Ward Beecher ~ For a righteous man falls seven times,… Read more »

We have a turtle in a basket in our classroom. “Tyler” has moveable legs, tail and head. If a child is upset about something, rather than acting out impulsively, i.e. screaming, hitting, etc., they go to Tyler to calm down. Tyler goes into his shell to calm down when he is upset, so the children… Read more »