Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!

Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner, " or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.

Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry...

Sometimes, maybe we don’t know exactly what we have until someone shows us.

Judges are apt to be naive simple-minded men.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

The job is not the work.