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.

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

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

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

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

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

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.