Chetan Bhagat Quotes

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

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

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

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

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

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

Having children is messy and easy to judge.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

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.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

We are the buffoons of our children.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.