Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.