Accepting Quote by Neil Patrick Harris

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their…

— Harold S. Kushner

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

— Morley Safer

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they…

— Andrew Solomon

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having…

— Ross W. Greene

Different parents have different standards for their children.

— Penelope Spheeris

Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries,…

— GloZell

It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

— La La Anthony

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers…

— Jo Frost

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be…

— Jessica Valenti

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow…

— Katy Perry

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

— Michelle Visage