Amit Trivedi Quotes

I feel bad for my parents for having to raise me. I was crazy.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

As a single parent, it can really be tough if the father's not in the picture much. Physically, emotionally and financially, you are trying to be there for your child and it can really get on top of you.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.

My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.