Laura Schlessinger Quotes

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

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.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

I personally don't resent having my children.

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

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

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

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.