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Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.
I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
I do not wish to share any parenting responsibilities with Michael because he is doing so well without me.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.
I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.