Kristin Armstrong Quotes

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

I do have a regular childhood.

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

I grew up; I had a couple of dogs.

At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

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?

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

I want my kids to stay kids for as long as they can.