But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid and you're told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When you're a teenager and your parents tell you no, you're old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But you're smarter and you're sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know what's best.
But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway.
Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know whats best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.
Tag: parents independence permission
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim MorrisonTag: individuality progress freedom parents murder self evolution self-awareness potential conditioning jim-morrison evolving
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....
Gerry SpenceTag: parents children delight respect kids
That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
Ivan TurgenevI got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.
Johann HariTag: parents children presents fathers twitter 2011 father-s-day
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
Christopher MorleyTag: parents children child-raising
Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.
C. JoyBell C.Tag: learning parents self-awareness parents-and-children growing self-development
Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different
Tana FrenchTag: growing-up parents adulthood
Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.
Victor DevlinTag: men parents fathers fatherhood
If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.
Charles PortisTag: parents parents-and-children raising-children parents-responsibility
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