Spencer Matthews Quotes

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Don't just parent your kids, develop them.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

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

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

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

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

This bringing up of children is so blithely undertaken by many of us, and the vast majority have had no training. It is one of those professions that every woman thinks she can undertake, so nobody really prepares for it.

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.

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

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.