Dale Archer Quotes

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

This bringing up of children is so blithely undertaken by many of us, and the vast majority have had no training. It is one of those professions that every woman thinks she can undertake, so nobody really prepares for it.

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.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

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.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

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

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

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

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

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

A parent who is high is unavailable to attend to the needs of a child.