Shiv Khera Quotes

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.