27 Quotes About Teenagers-and-parents

To have a good output filter the input

What we create online becomes part of our digital DNA, this in turns becomes part of our human DNA.

I don’t think I like that boy.” He growled, glaring for effect, just in case I hadn’t figured out his oh-so-subtle interpersonal cues.“He’s a sweet kid,” I insisted, folding the gray blazer over my arm.“He’s a teenage boy,” Cal said, his dark eyes narrowed. “They’re all sexual deviants under the surface. I should know. I was a teenage boy once.”“Thousands of years ago,” I countered.“Times may change, but testosterone does not.

Whatever emotional state you’re in while you’re parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.

You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.

A boy starts with bravado, and then he grows into real bravery." -- Nancy Freund, Rapeseed

A boy starts with bravado, and then he grows into real bravery.

She leaned forward and put her arms around me. Sometimes it used to make me prickly when she did that, and I'd turn into a bag of knees and elbows. . .

Her precociousness hardened into defiance, and her defiance broke into a reckless rage that scared even her own mother.