P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

You can't live your life through your children.