On Parenting:
We can view adolescence as either “an age of opportunity or a season for survival.”
-Paul Tripp
My friend Ethan says that being a parent means you go through life with the invisible muzzle of a gun held to your head. You may have the greatest joy you ever dreamed of, but you will never again draw an untroubled breath.
-Anne Lamott
On Adolescence:
There are no well-adjusted adolescents. Adolescence is, by definition, maladjustment. And getting adjusted is a strenuous and often noisy process.
-Eugene Peterson
Adolescence is an in-between stage determined not so much by what it is but by what it is not. Adolescence is not childhood, and it is not adulthood; it is the period in between those two stages.
-David Walsh
On Being a Teenager:
What’s the greatest problem facing teenagers today? Sin.
-Walt Mueller