Quotes About Communication

Clear communication is paramount for any relationship to become stronger.

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

As natural as it is for a parent to talk about their child, it is for me to talk about my product.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting.

My daughter's position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that's my parenting style.

I have known Aparna Sen for many years. We worked together in her film '15 Park Avenue' which was in English.