we teach not just with our actions, but with…
Page 118 we teach not just with our actions, but with our reactions. You better believe that this teaches a child something.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · Meaningful Minute compiled by Yisroel Besser and Nachi Gordon
In the book
And when you must give correction, borrow the gentlest tool I know: lead with love and proportion — ninety-nine percent of what you do is right; may I offer you the one percent? — so that feedback lands inside a warm, trusting loop rather than as an attack. Teach. Remember that you teach far more by your reactions than by your lectures, and that children absorb the standards you model, not the ones you merely impose — so if you are tough on them but easy on yourself, it is the leniency they will learn. Be deliberate about whom you expose them to, because the people in a child's orbit shape them as much as anything you say; I was always careful about the friends I let mine keep. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)