Frank Pittman

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

— Frank Pittman

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

— Frank Pittman

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

— Frank Pittman

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

— Frank Pittman

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his…

— Frank Pittman

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

— Frank Pittman

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

— Frank Pittman

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do

— Frank Pittman

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

— Frank Pittman

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

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

— Frank Pittman

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more…

— Frank Pittman

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must…

— Frank Pittman

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there…

— Frank Pittman

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his…

— Frank Pittman

“Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy…

— Frank Pittman

Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a…

— Frank Pittman

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of…

— Frank Pittman

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the…

— Frank Pittman

However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks…

— Frank Pittman

Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and…

— Frank Pittman

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your…

— Frank Pittman

In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change…

— Frank Pittman

Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go,…

— Frank Pittman

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who…

— Frank Pittman

Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath…

— Frank Pittman

The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people…

— Frank Pittman

Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.…

— Frank Pittman

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups,…

— Frank Pittman

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

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

— Frank Pittman

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

— Frank Pittman

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

— Frank Pittman

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

— Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

— Frank Pittman

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

— Frank Pittman

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

— Frank Pittman

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

— Frank Pittman