David Draiman Quotes

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 want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

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.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.