If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

It's so crucial to really get a good handle on what's getting in the way of the kid completing a homework assignment. It can be so many things.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.