Stefan Molyneux Quotes

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

Many, many people - many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions. Every parent has that, you know, parent guilt of my goal is to produce wonderful, productive individuals and put them out into society.

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.