As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

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

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

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

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

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

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

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

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

I actually like talking.

Design has to work. Art does not.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?