Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.

I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.

Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.

Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.

I started making music because I could.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.