Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes,… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
