Accidents Quote by Laurence Steinberg

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

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

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

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The…

— Laurence Steinberg

Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes,…

— Laurence Steinberg

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

— Laurence Steinberg

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

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

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

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

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

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

— Laurence Steinberg