Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.