Ivanka Trump Quotes

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

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.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.