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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.
'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it."
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
I always wish I had a road map for how to navigate my life as a parent and a producer, but in truth, it's a lot of trial and error.
Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.
Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.
Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.
My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.
After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!
While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today.
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.