Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

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

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

It's important to have the support of your family, but when is time to move away? You have to walk with your own legs one day.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going to college, I was still only an hour away from them.Now, after Idol and touring all over the place, I feel like I have become a lot more independent.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

I lived at home till I was 29.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.