Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How ‘substantial’ does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next – the sharp scissors, the car keys – this is one they understand better than we do. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
It’s the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it’s in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it’s through time. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
It’s always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don’t offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers. Nancy Gibbs Read Quote
