I've never quit loving
you and never will. Expect love, love and more love.
Jeremiah 31:3 MSG
James Dobson - The Strong Willed Child
“Children are not casual guests in our
home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them
and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be
built.”
“Don't throw away your
friendship with your teenager over behaviour that has no great moral
significance. ………There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand
like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.”
“The key to adolescent discipline
(if one exists) involves the
manipulation of circumstances, whatever they may be, to influence the behaviour
of youngsters, combined with an appeal to love and reason and co-operation and
compromise. It isn’t much, but it’s all we’ve got”.
“Every troubled teen should be so fortunate as to
have parents who are still pulling for him and praying for him and feeling for
him, even when he has become most unlovable”