M. Conley > Quotes

“Don’t be so concerned with raising a good kid, that you forget you already have one.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.” ― Bill Cosby”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“Expecting the best and demanding the best are two different things. The difference is our reaction. Our children need to know that they have permission to fail.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“By habitually saying things we do not mean, we discredit the words that we do mean.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“Our children will be most happy when they figure out who they are, and what their own purpose is in life. If they spend their time trying to be who we as parents want them to be, they will inevitably never be as satisfied or fulfilled in themselves.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you will look back, and realize they were the big things.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“What modern parents need to keep in mind is that they are competing with the social media. A phenomenon where having small conversations with people is at your fingertips. Hearing advice and affirmation is as easy as taking out their smart phone from their pocket and writing a tweet. Sometimes our children tell the world of cyberspace more information about their lives than they do the people who see them everyday, AND the people who care the most about them.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents

“Too many times we are at the park, and instead of pushing our kids on the swing we are making them pose and posting up Instagrammed photos of them on to our Facebook pages. It is an easy way to miss a childhood, trying to keep everyone else up to date on what is happening. Unfortunately we think posting up photos, and retelling stories to others makes us ‘involved’ parents, but there is no substitute to actually just being there. Switch your phone off, switch off the pager, keep your photos in an album, and be there in the moment.”
― M. Conley, 21 Mistakes of Modern Day Parents