“Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.”
Dr. James C. Dobson
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”
Bill Cosby
“The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.”
Earl Warren
“Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.”
Albert Bandura
“The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.”
Elizabeth Jenkins
“The insolence of wealth will creep out”
Samuel Johnson