I think many of us were parented the way that I was—with a lot of love and a handful of confusion.
Parenting Quotes
God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour.
You can’t be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, “No ice cream,” buys the ice cream, and says, “Don’t tell your mother.” You teach the child to lie — and to disrespect the other parent.
People don’t know how to behave in public anymore. Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
I try to be Sandy Cohen. I never, ever wanted my kids to see me angry, because I know that anger just stops a kid. It chokes everything off.
The fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.
The society that kneels before the commercial altar of childhood in the adorable forms of Strawberry Shortcake, Peter Pan, and Annie is the same society that murders its children, rapes them, starves them, poisons them, and hates them to death.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
