Rachel Roy Quotes

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

I'm concerned about my children being so much in the media.

We tell children their wellbeing is paramount, but we are also guilty of mollycoddling them. There's a constant emphasis on their vulnerability, which is proving toxic.

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.