Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.