Adolescents Are Not Monsters. They

You Have Learned What You Have Learned Very Well. It Has Helped You Survive.

I Want To Love You Without Clutching, Appreciate You Without Judging, Join You Without Invading, Invite You Without Demanding, Leave You Without Guilt, Criticize You Without Blaming, And Help You Without Insulting. If I Can Have The Same From You, Then We Can Truly Meet And Enrich Each Other.

It's Sad That Children Cannot Know Their Parents When They Were Younger; When They Were Loving, Courting, And Being Nice To One Another. By The Time Children Are Old Enough To Observe, The Romance Has All Too Often Faded Or Gone Underground.

What Lingers From The Parent's Individual Past, Unresolved Or Incomplete, Often Becomes Part Of Her Or His Irrational Parenting.

I Think If I Have One Message, One Thing Before I Die That Most Of The World Would Know, It Would Be That The Event Does Not Determine How To Respond To The Event. That Is A Purely Personal Matter. The Way In Which We Respond Will Direct And Influence The Event More Than The Event Itself.