Kelly Corrigan Quotes

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't explain to a little boy why I can't read him his bedtime story six nights a week. And he's even said to me, 'Mom, if you want to do a show somewhere, you should go.'

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

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 think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.