We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.
If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day...
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himsel...
I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van...
It takes a society to raise a generation.
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scr...
Children are God's gift.
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
In our society, if someone wants to be a hairstylist or a kickboxer or a hunting guide -or a schoolteacher- he or she must be trained and licensed by a state agency. No such requirement is necessary f...
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with...
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.