Jon Krakauer Quotes

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

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

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.