In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something.
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
I had a very complex childhood, and when I met my wife, because she has a master's in psychology, she promoted me into getting help. It really has helped. I'm not healed yet, but I'm working on some issues I had as a child.
I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
I was a problematic kid, to be sure.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
The problems you have as a kid will seem ridiculous when you get older because bigger and worse problems will come along.
I had a problem of not eating well when I was young. My parents always used to try to stress on me about eating well.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.
The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.
I was always a flaky child.
I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.
If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.
I was lucky. My children didn't have health issues, didn't have big school problems, etc. And as I watched some of my peers go through this, you can see how quickly a family can get derailed when they are not lucky.
My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
