I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.