Jake Paul Quotes

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

If my parents didn't raise me in the way that they did, I wouldn't be in the position I am now. They raised me very independent and taught me you can do anything you want to. I have an average-sized brother and an average-sized sister, and I had to do everything they had to.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don't want them to be lazy and just spend their father's money.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.

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

I'm a big believer in letting kids have as much responsibility as you can give them in terms of helping around the house and getting themselves dressed.