Kevin Jonas Quotes

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

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.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Don't get in my personal life.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.