Paula Danziger Quotes

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

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

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.

My parents told me if I wanted to fight, they wouldn't support me.

You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.

My mother didn't know what to do with me.

I told my children, 'I don't like children.'

I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.

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.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.

Family is family, but sometimes they do hurt you. They don't mean to, but they can, and sometimes you have to fend for yourself.