You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.