Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.

In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

My mother fed me with a spoon until I was 6 years old.

I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.