Mikey Madison Quotes

It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Woory about building a kid who is good, not a kid with good self-esteem.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I'm so thrilled to get to raise my kids in the environment that they are in. I think it's easy just to imagine that all these kids are spoiled and entitled. Part of what makes me be strong with my kids is the fact that I'm surrounded by other really firm strong moms.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

I told my children, 'I don't like children.'

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.