Mayim Bialik Quotes

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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

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.

Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

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

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.