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“Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.”

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Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
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“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 day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.”

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Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
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