Naveen Jain Quotes

I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.

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

'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.