Julia London Quotes

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

I almost got my babysitter arrested when I was 7.

Kids are great. They are endlessly fascinating and bizarre. But I also think that if I had left them on their own for long enough, one of them would have been eaten.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Is there anything more important than a child?

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

The real food is not being advertised.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.

I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?