R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

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

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

Here's some advice: if something really embarrassing happens to your kid, don't take it on national TV.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

Children enhance you.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

Being a parent is amazing.

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

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

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

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I always wanted to do a family show.