Paul Reiser Quotes

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

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Every child needs both parents.

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.

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

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

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

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

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.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

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.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.