Nancy Jo Sales Quotes

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

I've worked with children all my life.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Kids are important.

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I have very little patience with children.