Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.