LL Cool J Quotes

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

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

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

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 the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

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.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from the moment they wake up is to make them tired. It's exhausting. Anybody who's got kids knows what I'm talking about.

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.