B. J. Armstrong Quotes

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

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

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

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.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.