How To Parent Quotes
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.
If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.
My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away.
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
