Jaden Smith Quotes

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

My mother was top billing in our house.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.