Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. Use this quote
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Use this quote
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. Use this quote
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom. Use this quote
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. Use this quote
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Use this quote
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. Use this quote
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. Use this quote
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. Use this quote
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Use this quote
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. Use this quote
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting. Use this quote
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. Use this quote
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Use this quote
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Use this quote
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Use this quote
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Use this quote
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. Use this quote