Alanis Morissette Quotes

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.

Parenting is a learning process.

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

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.

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

Children require affection. That's very important.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.