Dexter Fletcher Quotes

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I'm a big kid, you know?

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

Once you have a small child who depends on you for every little thing, you're responsible for him. It's a huge responsibility. For me, it makes me into a more responsible person.

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

You need to act your age and not your girl's age

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.