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As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.
Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different
The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.
The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.
Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.