People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.

School is very demanding these days.

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.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

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

People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.