Quotes from Susan Alexander Yates

Healing begins when we humble ourselves and go to one another asking for forgiveness.

If I had to write a formula for trust, it would be: Trust = Wisdom + Experience (demonstrated responsibility over a period of time).

Yet, even if we are the only parents who don't let our teen do something, we still have to do what we believe is best for our child. We are not running for most popular parent.

But we also want our child to learn to obey his earthly parents, whose voices he hears say, "I love you," whose arms he feels give him hugs, in order that as he grows he will be weaned from obeying us to obeying his heavenly Father, whose voice he might not audibly hear, whose arms he won't exactly feel, yet who he has been taught loves him even more than we do. How can he learn to obey Him if he hasn't learned to obey us?

each child will be used by him to grow us up into the men and women he longs for us to become.

sense "your unlovable teenager," please give me your loving heart for my own child. Show me today specific things in him that I can love. Remind me of positive traits that he does have! Help my attitude toward him not to depend on his response.

Our kids must learn that "no" means "no" and not "maybe, if you throw a temper tantrum, whine, or threaten to run away." It will be difficult if they did not learn this when they were young. If they have been subtly calling the shots and manipulating their parents, change will be hard and will take longer. But it is never too late to do what is right.

I truly believe that God hasn't given us the kids we have merely so that we might raise them. He's given us the exact kids he has in the exact birth order with the exact personalities so that they might also be used as his tools in our lives to mold us into the men and women he has created us to be.

Your child needs the security of knowing that he isn't in control. That you mean what you say. That your word is good.

Our children learn at a young age which parent to go to with a request. It's vital that parents of teens present a united front.