W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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

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

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.

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.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

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

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

Every child needs both parents.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

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.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

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

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.