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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.
A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."
I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.
One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.
When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.
I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.
I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.
Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.