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Quotes and Statistics

   A 1993 study of more than 37,000 teens concluded that the factor that most protected them from life problems such as crime, teen pregnancy, dropping out of high school, and drug/alcohol abuse, was a secure connection with caring adults.
No: Why Kids-of all Ages- Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It  - David Walsh, 2007 (p.93)

   "If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairy tales.  If you want your children to be more brilliant read them more fairy tales."   Albert Einstein

   The combined income and tax losses from a single year's crop of high school dropouts in America is $192 billion.
The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic  -  Bill Milliken, 2007 (p. xxii)

   "Children do not instinctively know what's best: they have to be shown and taught what to do." 
Ask Supernanny - Jo Frost, 2006, (p. 81)

   A 2005 University of Pennsylvania study showed that self-discipline is twice as important as intelligence in predicting school success.
No: Why Kids-of all Ages- Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say  It  - David Walsh, 2007 (p.44)

   "We don't have a youth problem in America-we have an adult problem."   Bill Milliken
The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic - Bill Milliken, 2007 (p. 18)

   The American Medical Association sanctioned a study which found that half of all U.S. children are bullied at some point in their lives and that one in ten is victimized on a regular basis (Ritter 2002).  Passive or submissive students comprise 85% of all bullying victims (Olweus 2003).
Bullying: Effective Strategies for its Prevention - in "Educational Psychology", 2009, (pp. 179-180)

   "If children were meant to run the home, they would have been born larger."
Parenting With Love and Logic - Foster Clime, MD and Jim Fay, 2006, (p.26)

   A 2004 study of 5th, 7th, and 9th graders by the California Department of Education found that as overall fitness scores improved, math and reading scores also improved.
Mind and Body: New Research Ties Physical Activity and Fitness to Academic Success - in "Educational Psychology", 2009, (p. 24)

   "According to resiliency theory, the presence of nurturing long-term relationships is required for good emotional health.  Stable positive relationships help regulate the body and the brain."
The Mentor's Guide to Promoting Resiliency - Horacio Sanchez, 2003, (p.54)

   "The prefrontal cortex, or PFC, is right behind the forehead.  It is the CEO of the brain, the part of the brain where we think ahead, consider consequences, and manage emotional impulses and urges.  And it's one of the last circuits of the brain to mature.  The PFC enters a major developmental period as boys and girls enter adolescence, which doesn't end until the late teens or early twenties. . . The role of parent, teacher, counselor, and coach is . . . to act as the surrogate brain until the young one is finished being wired.  And that's why 'No' is still important for teenagers."
No: Why Kids-of all Ages- Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It  - David Walsh, 2007 (p. 161-162)