Parental Boundaries Quotes

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost you mind?

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

Many single mothers do a heroic job looking after their children, as mine did with us; but as she found, it becomes twice as hard to set boundaries with half the number of parents.

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I think, over the years, the way my daughters' friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of course they take me for granted because I'm the one who's there, but listen, I don't want to be 'the cool mom' who lets things get out of control.That's not my lookout.

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

I remember my mom saying, 'I will take you to every audition, I will support you, but the minute you stop caring about it, I will stop.'

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.