January 28, 2026
“When human beings are being hurt emotionally, our thinking shuts down. When our thinking shuts down we cannot learn, we can only record. When adults try to “teach” children by criticizing, lecturing, shaming, ridiculing, giving orders, screaming, threatening and hitting, it shuts down their thinking so they can’t learn what the adult intended to teach them to do or not to do; they can only record what is being modeled.” ~ Pam Leo