Tess Holliday Quotes

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

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.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

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

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.