Haim Ginott

Israeli-American clinical psychologist and child therapist whose Between Parent and Child (1965) quietly changed how millions of parents speak to their children. Born in Tel Aviv, trained at Columbia, he taught that the relationship is built — or broken — sentence by sentence. He insisted that feelings deserve to be acknowledged before behavior is corrected, that words can be small daggers or small medicines, and that a parent's job is to be both warm and firm without being harsh. His work directly shaped Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (How to Talk So Kids Will Listen) and the entire modern vocabulary of emotion-coaching.