Preparing for Adulthood Quotes

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

I'm not raising the children, I'm raising the grown ups that they're going to be.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I worry about my children, actually. I'm trying to give them a decent upbringing but I sometimes worry that that means they're going to be kind of mediocre adults. Like maybe I should throw them out for a bit and give them some adversity.

My dad was born in 1905, and the men from that period were real men. He prepared me for the world.

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

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

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.