Jon Favreau Quotes

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I just wish I could understand my father.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

I personally would love to see Harold and Kumar with children. I think that would be hilarious.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.