Rob Reiner Quotes

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

I tried to stay with things until I thought they were on their feet and they learned to walk and talk.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I believe in being a mother who gives wings, not clips them.

Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift.

The British have always made terrible parents.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

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