Children Quote by John Durant

“Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.”

— Jen Lancaster

“Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The overindulgent parent…

— William Deresiewicz

“Children who are protected from every possible source of danger never learn to deal with risk. Lenore Skenazy puts it this way, “If kids…

— Gever Tulley

“Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children’s.”

— Martha Woodroof

As a parent, you worry about kids' safety and the world they're living in.

— Baron Davis

“underscores the fact that parents’ fears are well founded. The numbers don’t lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss…

— Richard Bromfield

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

— Alan Hirsch

“Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids.…

— Liane Moriarty

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears”

— Ellen Goodman

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When it comes to the safety of our children, we need to take an abundance of caution.

— Ned Lamont

“Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many…

— Ernest Hemingway