Anatole Broyard Quotes

I had my kids convinced it was a civics lesson rather than child abuse.

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

When you have girl children they torture you!

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.