Vicki Baum Quotes

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

The children of childish parents age quickly.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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.

I'm the father of four daughters.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

All our children are grown up and have their own lives.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

I was raised mostly by my mom.