If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

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

Only if a child feels right can he think right.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

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

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.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.