1. “Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.”
- Richard Devos

2. Zygomatic Major Muscle
“The smile on your face is the light in the window that tells children you are home!” - Dr. Homer Adams

3. Kind words
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
-Haim Ginott

4. Gentle touch
“We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth."
- Virginia Satir

6. The 5 Love Languages Physical Touch Words of Affirmation Quality Time
Gifts
Acts of Service

7. Physical touch Emiley, age 8
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My mommy and daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.”

9. Words of affirmation Clare, age 6
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt.”

11. Quality time
Gaige, age 4
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.”
Bobby, age 7
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”

13. gifts
Nathan, age 6
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your french fries without making them give you any of theirs.”

16. Acts of service Rebecca, age 8
“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis, too. That’s love.”

19. “children don’t care what you know until they know that you care.”
- Unknown

20. Thank you!!! References Presenter: Jana Oder
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References
The Five Love Languages of Children video series and book
Great Expectations manual