Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

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

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

We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

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.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

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

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

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.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

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

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.