Rob Reiner Quotes

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

Often parents know what's best for their kids without having to learn from others.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

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

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.

I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind.

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.