Noel Fielding Quotes

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

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

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

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

In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on …. I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange jumpsuit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12 … and where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is?

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us that the family is not the only purveyor of morality.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.