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

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

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

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

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