Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
