Michael McIntyre Quotes

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.