Children's Independence Quotes

What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

Because it's such a good car, I think we'll have a Multipla till the kids leave home, which is tragic because I could probably afford a really nice car!

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.