Cory Barlog Quotes

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

Nowadays, you cannot tell your kids what to do. In fact, you have to listen to them. As a parent, give them great education and values and they will decide what to do in life.

The more we try to control our kids and create who they are and where they're going, the more that will fall apart. That's a dangerous thing. So you need to actually manage the fear and figure out who your kids are. Who do they want to be and how can you help shape that, but not control it.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

If my daughter says she doesn't like something, I don't do it. It's up to Sophia.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.