Idle threats not only lessen your credibility, they can, if they’re interpreted as real threats, actually damage your children’s brains.

Your job as a parent is to teach your children about life: Now – ask yourself if spanking will teach the lesson you hope to convey more effectively than utilizing a different consequence.

The number one parenting skill across all cultures is love. Listen to find out what number two is….

As your children’s parent, you are also their teacher.

Learn Dr. Conte’s Four Cs: Choices, consequences, consistency, and compassion. 

Raise your children’s efficacy and their esteem will come up with it. Raise their self-esteem and you’ll leave their efficacy hanging. I say, focus on efficacy because when you do, you will be boosting what will ultimately drive your children to succeed. 

It takes a lot of effort to pay attention to everything we’re saying and doing….. Because the reality is that children, specifically your children, are learning more by watching you be in the world than they will ever learn by your telling them about it.

If I’m only ever going to always live with myself, then I think it’s probably a good idea to get to know myself.

Nearly 7 out of 10 people who leave prison return…. now I don’t know about the school you went to, but where I went, if I would have scored a 30% on a test, that would be called failing.

Nine stories up is really high, but if you have a meeting on the tenth floor, being on the ninth floor simply isn’t high enough.