Stephen Colbert Quotes

It is the home which produces the nursery stock of new generations. I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love and motivation to grow and do well.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Children are what the mothers are.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they love you any less or care about you any less.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.