Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yoursel… - Joyce Brothers

While parents are naturally in a leadership role, strong families strive to share decision-making. They resolve differences by respecting other viewpoints and accepting compromise solutions. One family decided to spend money on a son's music lessons rather than replace worn carpeting. The compromise was to pitch in and clean the carpet. In another family, everyone but the youngest daughter loved to ski. They rented a vacation condo with plenty of activities for the daughter, and the skiers accepted an hour's drive to the slopes.

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Maybe Listening, not imitating, is the sincerest form of flattery.