Campbell Brown Quotes

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.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

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.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

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

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.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

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

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

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

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

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

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.