“Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”-Mitch Albom.

Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”-Jane Nelson

'Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first, we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”-Henry Cloud

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”-Bette Davis.

When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.”-Haim G. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.

“When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.

Through play, you can help your children solve problems, test out ideas, and explore their imaginations.”-Carolyn Webster-Stratton

“Play helps build a warm relationship between family members and create a bank of positive feelings and experiences that can be drawn upon in times of conflict.

“Parenthood.It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.”-Peter Krause.

We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it.”-Kristen Crockett It’s what we know and pass on to our own children. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication.

“The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up.

“If we don’t shape our kids, they will be shaped by outside forces that don’t care what shape our kids are in.”-Dr.

“Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.”-Robert Fulghum.

It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”-Barbara Kingsolver

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right.

Shared Custody by Peter Styles