Chris Crutcher Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

As a parent, when I fail to listen to my kids, when our kids stop bringing us our problems, we have all failed as parents and as leaders.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

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.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

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.

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.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

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.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.