Nancy Wilson Quotes

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

It's important to have the support of your family, but when is time to move away? You have to walk with your own legs one day.

My father, Colin, and my brother, Chris, who is four years older than me, were a great help to me when I was younger.

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

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.

Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

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 don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.