Establishing Rules Quotes

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Like most parents, Gloria and I had to deal with the problems of rebellion in our children. We realized that it had to be stopped quickly before it developed into a serious situation.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.