It is the sunlight of parental love and encouragement that enables a child to grow in competence and slowly gain mastery over his environment....

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. (Henry Ward Beecher)   Hindsight is 20/20, and if we could go back and...

Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first. (Matthew Jacobson)   I remember bringing each of our daughters...

Always remember that failure is an event, not a person. ( Zig Ziglar)   Everyone fails at something some time. But for teenagers, a failure can...

I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.       ...

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) Often failure teaches you what you need to know....

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.              (Arianna Huffington)   We have all bought the lie that there is no...

Never dull your shine for somebody else. (Tyra Banks).   We want our teens to have meaningful and healthy relationships both in personal and...

Trust each other again and again, that is what parenting is about. (Desiree Panlilio). Take a moment and ask yourself, “What is trust? How does my...

Trust is a changing scale. (Desiree Panlilio). “What were you thinking!!!” I know as a parent each of us has thought that, perhaps said it out loud,...

Trust, but verify. (Ronald Reagan)   Teenagers are in the most impressionable years of their development. They are vulnerable to numerous...

The hardest part of parenting is realizing that it is your circus, and those definitely are your monkeys. (Sarcastic Mommy). Our teens are fun,...