As a child, your parents are responsible for what you'll become. As an adult, you're responsible to change what will be.

I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at work. But I became a man because the little time I had with my parents, they gave me the only and best advice they could offer to their son.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

It's good to have the child be responsible for purchasing some things on their own. If parents buy everything for kids, they won't learn to associate money with those items.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.