How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.