Mardy Grothe Quotes

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Television is the third parent.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.