Warren Farrell Quotes

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

A woman's relationship with her son is psychological, emotional, even physical.

Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.

I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

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

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.