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When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back
I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.
To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.
Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.
Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.
I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.
If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.
You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.
The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.