If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
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With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.
There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.
I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.
My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
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