Sean Baker Quotes

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

Parenting is tough.

There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent. We will all make mistakes.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.