Don Johnson Quotes

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

I just wish I could understand my father.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you don’t understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.