Hanna Rosin Quotes

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

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

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.