Gilbert Highet Quotes

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

I think there's different parenting styles.

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

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

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

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

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

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

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

We all want to raise our children well.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

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

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

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.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

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

The one thing that kids need is consistency.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.