Taylor Mali Quotes

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

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

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

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.

America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

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

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

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

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

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.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

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

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

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

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

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.