Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think… — Laurence Steinberg Adolescence 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… — Laurence Steinberg Arbitrary 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… — Laurence Steinberg Business Copy Share Image
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .… — Laurence Steinberg Adolescence Copy Share Image
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose… — Laurence Steinberg Attitude 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 Communication 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… — Laurence Steinberg Adolescence 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… — Laurence Steinberg Arbitrary 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… — Laurence Steinberg Accidents 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… — Laurence Steinberg Anger 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… — Laurence Steinberg Activist 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… — Laurence Steinberg Children 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 Children Copy Share Image
