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My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
I would say is that kids know about Bernie Sanders and they`re off the radar.In the same way kids knew about Twitter before their parents did.
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.
The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent
Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.
I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.
A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.