A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.
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.
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.