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.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

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

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

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

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