Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

I see Amit spends a lot of time with the kids which is even reflective in their behaviours because most of their mannerisms seem to be influenced by their father.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it.

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

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."

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

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

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

As the family goes, so go the children.