The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for gr...owth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad... that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere in which individual differences are appreciated, love is shown openly, mistak...es are used for learning, communication is open, rules are flexible, responsibility (matching promise with delivery)is modeled and honesty is practiced--the kind of atmosphere found in a nurturing family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a rem...inder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, or ...fattening, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resourc...es 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requ...ires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the ...individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is easy to see how adolescence becomes so frustrating, and old age so abhorrent, to many people. The life line is disempowered ...at two major points: at the beginning and at the end. The only acceptable place is in the middle. Power is conferred only on adults. It is denied to youth and seniors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »