Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

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.

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when I'm rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

Yeah, well, in the beginning, our mom and dad had one philosophy. We couldn't just sit inside and play video games.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.