You Have All Played A Significant Part

Adolescents Are Not Monsters. They Are Just People Trying To Learn How To Make It Among The Adults In The World, Who Are Probably Not So Sure Themselves.

Negotiating The Adolescent Stage Is Neither Quick Nor Easy. . . . I Have Often Said To Parents, "if It Isn't Illegal, Immoral, Orfattening, Give It Your Blessing." We Do Much Better . . . If We Find And Support All The Places We Can Appropriately Say Yes, And Say Only The No's That Really Matter.

The Problem Is Never The Problem! It Is Only A Symptom Of Something Much Deeper.

Rearing A Family Is Probably The Most Difficult Job In The World. It Resembles Two Business Firms Merging Their Respective Resources To Make A Single Product. All The Potential Headaches Of That Operation Are Present When An Adult Male And An Adult Female Join To Steer A Child From Infancy To Adulthood.

Over The Years I Have Developed A Picture Of What A Human Being Living Humanely Is Like. She Is A Person Who Understand, Values And Develops Her Body, Finding It Beautiful And Useful; A Person Who Is Real And Is Willing To Take Risks, To Be Creative, To Manifest Competence, To Change When The Situation Calls For It, And To Find Ways To Accommodate To What Is New And Different, Keeping That Part Of The Old That Is Still Useful And Discarding What Is Not.