Mary Pipher Quotes

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.

Michael and I will always be connected with the kids. I will always be there for him. I will always be there for the children. And people make remarks: 'I can't believe she left her children.' Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

So many people's parents separate and for my generation it is very normal. But I remember feeling as though nobody ever spoke about it.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

We all have opinions to what our parents really are, whether they agree or not. I'm sure they would feel the same the other way around.

In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.