Augustus Hare Quotes

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

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.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting.

Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!'

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

The relationship between parents and children who live together is a growing one, and it shifts every day, especially during the teenage years.

I think there's different parenting styles.