Fred G. Gosman

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.