Words of Wisdom: Bill Cosby on Parenting
Bill Cosby is a comedian, actor, author. Here are some of his thoughts on parenting:
- Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet
- Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home
- My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children
- 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
- A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station
- Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die
- Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children
- I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time
- Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit
- Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry
- 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
- If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right
- Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
- Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made
- Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope
- You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any
The first and the last quotes really hit hard . . .
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Posted by DDFD at 4/19/2009 11:34 PM 
Categories: Self Improvement, Words of Wisdom, Parenting, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Self Improvement Bill Cosby Kids Personal Philosophy. Parenting
Categories: Self Improvement, Words of Wisdom, Parenting, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Self Improvement Bill Cosby Kids Personal Philosophy. Parenting
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