Natasha Khan Quotes

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

How I was raised is what I am today.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

During and shortly after puberty human beings have an indubitable tendency to loosen their allegiance to all traditional rites and social norms of their culture

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

I do have a regular childhood.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.