Michael Robotham Quotes

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

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.

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.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

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.

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.

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

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

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

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

I respect Donald Trump's children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald. I don't agree with nearly anything else he says or does, but I do respect that. And I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.