John Layfield Quotes

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it's been a fascinating window into my kids' world. It's been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways - and so much cooler than we were.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.