“Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.” KidsValuesForceAttitudeTastePressurePressesPeersMoldPeer Pressure Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25 Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
“It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.” StoriesShowsBigsKidsTodayYoungForgetMissingHumourDestructionPressesNosesSatInterviewsCoveredEditorsLegendsFloodReportersJournalisticOverlooking Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.” KnowsWayWellsChildrenLittlesMadeSaidDoneSeemsKidsTurnsLeftWaitingKeysMarkPressesRaisedCampaignsSoftwareDedicatedTwinsFlawedRemarksCasualSiblingInfluentialUndonePlaygroundsHubrisUnsaid Author:Barbara Holland