Your child trusts you, often completely and absolutely.

Return that trust.

Your child will sense your respect and trust in your attitude, manner, and actions.

He wants to learn more than he wants anything in the world.

Give your child the opportunity to learn as a privilege that he has earned.

The things that you are teaching your child are precious.

Knowledge is not valuable; it is invaluable.

Once a mother asked us, “Should I give my child a kiss after I have taught him something ?”

Of course a mother should kiss her child as often as she likes – the more the better. But the question was a little like asking, “Should I give him a kiss after I kiss him ?”

Teaching your child is another kind of kiss.

Now you have another way of showing the most profound form of affection – respect.

Each time you teach your child, the spirit with which you do so should be that of a kiss or a hug.

You teaching is very much a part of everything you do with your child. It begins when he wakes up and doesn’t end until he is sound asleep.

When you have begun your program you should garnish your hard work with the absolute trust that your child has absorbed what your have given him.

Of course he knows what you have told him and shown him. You have gone to some considerable effort to make everything that you teach him nice and clear, and precise, and discrete and non-ambiguous.

What else could he do but know it ? It is all so simple for him.

- Glenn Doman