Steven Spielberg Quotes

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

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

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

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

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

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

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.

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 set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor - a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

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

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.