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While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.