Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
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...
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.
It takes a society to raise a generation.
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
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.
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
A man with no children can easily be lulled into a sense that time is standing still. It's not. It's marching past us, relentlessly. Having a child growing and changing before your eyes makes this una...
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions...
I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is.
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.
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