The First Step: Self-Mastery

“Begin at once a program of self-mastery. But start modestly, with the little things that bother you. When you call your child, be prepared that she may not respond to you, or if she does, she might not do what you want her to do. Under these circumstances, it doesn’t help your child for you to become agitated. It should not be in her power to cause you any disturbance”    

–Epictetus (Phrygian-born Greek Stoic Philosopher, c.A.D.55- c.A.D.135)