M. Scott Peck Quotes

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

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

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

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

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

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.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

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

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

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

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.