Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.