Charlie Trotter Quotes

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

My parents weren't very strict. They've always trusted me to be independent and make my own decisions. There wasn't really anything to rebel against.

I have someone else clean my house so that it will actually get cleaned, and I let kids in my house survive on Peeps and 'SpongeBob.'

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

Let it alone. Let it pass by. Laissez faire, laissez passer.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

My mum was the worst time-keeper, and she never worried about the house being spotless, so it was always the place where all my mates wanted to hang out.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

That government is best which governs least.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.