37 Quotes by Kevin Leman

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

How you handle peer pressure – the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel – in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child’s final destiny.

Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail – and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you’ll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.

That’s the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they’re in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

What happens to children of critical-eyed parents is that they begin avoiding criticism at all costs because it becomes too threatening. Rather than finish a task, they’ll stop an inch short and start something else.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say “I’m sorry” is for him to hear it from our lips first.