Christopher Robin Milne Quotes

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

I was raised by a single mother.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

My parents never let me have everything.

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.