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" Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely. "
Remember
Looking
Looking Back
" Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is. "
Sister
You
Friend
" Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do. "
Will
Become
Either
" Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point. "
Words
Life
Struggle
" Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.' "
Friends
Courage
Power
" I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication. "
Child
Think
Challenge
" My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life. "
High School
School
My Life
" My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens. "
America
You
Think
" One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents. "
Find
Talents
Help
" Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else. "
Glasses
You
Yourself
" Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes. "
Decisions
Why
Yes
" Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts. "
Help
Judge
View
" Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others. "
Friends
You
Work
" Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.' "
Positive
Time
Light
" That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time. "
Know
Time
You
" The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there. "
Day
Today
Think
" Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal. "
Reality
Be Happy
Choices
" You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright. "
Life
Want
You
" You shouldn't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol' bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC. "
Hug
Yourself
Time
" You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased. "
Baby
You
Water
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