You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them...and the more you use your power to try to control pe…

- Thomas Gordon

It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to mo…

- Thomas Gordon

Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively. Actually,…

- Thomas Gordon

An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to…

- Thomas Gordon

We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gi…

- Thomas Gordon

True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all me…

- Thomas Gordon