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.

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

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

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

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

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