Phil McGraw Quotes

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.

I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.

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