Asking Quote by Diana Trilling

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

— Kevin Costner

As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always…

— Susan Wojcicki

“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a…

— Victoria Secunda

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

— Archie Bunker

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”

— Tracy Chevalier

“psychologists coined the term “mum effect” for when people avoid sharing bad news.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

When the children were growing, I didn't want to speak about the family.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

— Maria Montessori

Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and…

— John Harvey Kellogg

Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time.

— Michael Rosen