Nia Long Quotes

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

Even the most high-maintenance boss isn't going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you're paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it's like, 'Wait, what? You're not watching me right now? Really? Then I'm going to go spill this milk.' Even bosses from hell don't behave like that!

My boys are wild. My daughter is wild.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.