Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Light is actually the first word I said as a little baby.

Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

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

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens' friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.

We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers.