If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

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.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.