Maurice Sendak Quotes

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.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

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

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

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

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

We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.