Carolyn Hax Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know, and they fill in a bunch of the blanks with their imaginations if their parents haven't had the conversations and/or established themselves as sources of information. It's rare that the kids know nothing at all, and the somethings they do know are often only partially right or flat-out wrong.

  Carolyn Hax

  Kids, Imagination, Parent

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

  Carolyn Hax

  Views, Parent, Littles

• For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.

  Carolyn Hax

  Baby, People, House

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

  Carolyn Hax

  Home, Kids, Winning

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

• There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

  Carolyn Hax

  Keeping Secrets, Differences, Parent

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

  Carolyn Hax

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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