Responsible people are happy people.
Happy people are responsible people.
Responsibility and happiness feed on each other.
Dr. Jim Sutton expanded on this concept when he wrote in his blog:
Dr. Marvin Marshall (www.marvinmarshall.com), my friend in California and founder of the acclaimed “Discipline Without Stress” ‘program, suggests young people sometimes misbehave for two clear and addressable reasons:
1. They are unhappy.
2. Their behavior is their attempt to “fix” the problem.
We best not lose the message of these two statements in their simplicity. They come very, very close to saying all we need to know about behavior in children and adolescents. Unfortunately, it is often the case that we consider neither of these reasons in working with the disruptive and defiant child; we simply want the behavior to stop.
James Sutton, Educator and Psychologist
James D. Sutton, Ed.D, CSP
Blog: http://itsaboutthem.wordpress.com
Website: http://www.docspeak.com
Author of the bestseller, “101 Ways to Make Your Classroom Special”
