My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family.
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.
My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.
I try to support my kids in what they do and, at the same time, not push them towards anything.
My wife and I never squabbled in front of the children. We never touched each other except in love.
I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.
I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"
I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the only way to treat children.
My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.
I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.
Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.
I've never in my life hit my daughter.
My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'
Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
