Parenting Issues Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen.

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.