Pamela Druckerman Quotes

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

My father didn't push me.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

By the time we have our fifth and sixth you'll be a pro." Kane teased. He nuzzled Sebastien head. " Do you hear that, son ? You're our experiment, so you'll have all sorts of excuses to do very naughty things.

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.