Parental Goals Quotes

Being able to inspire my kid with what I'm doing now, it's going to help him succeed in the future, and that's one of my main goals here - is to try and succeed on the field, and succeed as a mother.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.

I try for my children to have the most normal life. Obviously, they're spoiled. I'm not saying they're not, because we're all very spoiled. But within that, I'd like them to be as down-to-earth as possible.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)?...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes, which is what I think any parent would do.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.

What Lisa and I want is for our kids to grow up to be good people.

I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

My ultimate goal is my son, and a lot of other kids, to not have to grow up the way I grew up. I just give them a different outlook on something. I want to let them know they can have this much fun by doing something legal like me rapping for instance.