Anika Noni Rose Quotes

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

I'm already a stepdad but, of course, I'd like to have kids.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

People always tell me I need to have a kid, and I say, No, I don't. Because I wouldn't have just one kid; I'd have six. I need a huge family. So I just kind of fill my house with tons of rejects and misfits so it feels like I have a bunch of children.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

It must be weird having one child.