Anna Quindlen Quotes

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

I get very protective of kids on set. I always make a point of telling kids that anything that makes them feel unsafe or concerned they should just speak up about, and then keep an eye on times when that could present an issue.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.

As a parent, you worry about kids' safety and the world they're living in.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children's show? See, I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.