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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.
99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.
If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me to become a footballer.
As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.
Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.
You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.
I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.
I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.
I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.
Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.
Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.
Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.
Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.