Julianne Moore Quotes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I know parents have a hard time letting their kids spread their wings and fly.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

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.

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

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.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. 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. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.