Kara Swisher Quotes

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

We are our children's first teachers.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

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

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.