Felix Dennis Quotes

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

My mother always said bringing me up was a tiring business, which I 'believe. For instance, when we lived in Singapore, the Chinese staff used to leave their slippers at the bottom of the steps. Every night, I used to go and remove their slippers. I stopped being tiresome at about 14.

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no one tells you how to answer the kids' questions in the backseat of the car when they want to know what the world is for or where they came from or why any of this is happening.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

You learn a lot though when you have kids, I'll tell you what. Did you know when a baby poops its diapers, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled-up newspaper?