No matter how calmly you try to referee parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

At the end of the day the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

As parents grandparents uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.