Edward VIII Quotes

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

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

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

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 bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

At home, my children make sure that I fall in line and march to their tune.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

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

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!