Shweta Menon Quotes

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

My relationship with Tiger is centered around our children, and we are doing really good - we really are - and I am so happy that is the case. He is a great father.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.