Jeff Nichols Quotes

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.