Benjamin Spock Quotes

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

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 was raised mostly by my mom.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

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

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

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

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?