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

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

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.

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.

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