Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon...

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn’t dictate to me any more – that I control my life.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.

Because the truth was, and we both knew it, he’d gone long, long ago. I’d just made him stick around when he really wanted to be somewhere else. In his own weird way, he was...

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers – all smoking related.

I know I’m a Third, I know it, if you want I’ll go away so you don’t have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I’m sorry I lost the monitor and now you have...

When I first went to ‘National Geographic,’ I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us,...

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow – and grow, maybe,...

I’ve never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate – my father had undergone Freudian analysis – and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up...

My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple – religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior...

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to “teach” their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship....

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to… understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It’s important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I...

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Lizzie plays club volleyball and Trent is an amazing writer. We’re lucky our parents didn’t stereotype us, so we could figure out who we are for ourselves.

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco...

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all...

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when...

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the...

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

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.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we...

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

It’s nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, … We have got to understand that it is not an appropriate role for children.

I think when you’re 14 years old, I think you’re sort of looking for markers that prove you’re an adult and you’re independent of your parents.

Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship....

I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I...

I was lucky to grow up with parents who just did that. Nothing was thrown away until it was completely spent.

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I...

It didn’t matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.