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You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.
Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.
My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.
If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.
No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life.
Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.
Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.