Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Being a teenager is hard.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!

I was so gangly, even sneakers looked awkward. Everybody kind of goes through some phase, and it's hard if you're singled out for anything. But there was this one boy in particular who made fun of me, and - it's funny - then later, when we were 18 or 19, he wanted to go out with me.

One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.

Being a teenager is complicated.

The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.