Etgar Keret Quotes

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

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

Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.