When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

You gotta have goals!