I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of respecting children's individuality and aspirations.
Grace Kelly highlights the value of recognizing children as independent individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and dreams. By treating them with respect and acknowledgment, parents can foster a nurturing environment that encourages personal growth and self-expression.
In practice
During a parenting workshop, a speaker can share this quote to emphasize the need for respect in parent-child relationships.
I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.
I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.
My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.
When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.
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