Frank Zappa Quotes

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

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

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

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

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I don’t want the Government to teach my kids’ family values.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

We want parents to have choices. But we never want to let the choice that one parent makes limit the choices that another parent can make.

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.