You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.