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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

— Billy Crystal

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

— Jack Nicklaus

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

— Mario Batali

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

— Bill Cosby

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

— Mo Farah

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

— Charles Buxton

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

— Maurice Sendak

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

— Haim Ginott

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

— Constance Zimmer

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

— Diane Cilento

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

— Joel Parkinson