Louis C. K. Quotes

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Never give a Blow in a passion. Stay till your passion is over; and let the Offenders plainly see, that you deal thus with them, out of a pure Obedience unto God, and for their true Repentance.

Losing your patience and your temper isn't the most attractive thing, but as kids get older, you wind up raising your voice.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.