Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Loving unconditionally, was love so sublime.Lost without you now, I thought we'd have more time.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.