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.

I’d been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you’re better than you are.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

It’s so easy and convenient to buy our children gifts, but I encourage and challenge you to give them gifts that TRULY matter! The gift of unconditional love. The gift of encouragement. The gift of...

Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you’re severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and...

Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that...

It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn’t afraid of how great my mom was.

There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one’s parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is perhaps no mystery at all. But the history of one’s parents...

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Understood,” he said.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

tough.” I think of the stuff Dad has said over the years. How he finally gave up suggesting things. Why are you asking me this? I never figured out what to do about my own...

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that’s the time to really step in.

If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can’t buy you clothes, they’re so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but...

Don’t be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It’s the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

Dear God,” said Nudge under her breath, “I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I wantthem to love me. I already love them. Please see what you can do. Thanks...

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes…

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn’t have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn’t want to...

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork – a cooler one,...

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there’s no more wasting time.

If kids like a picture book, they’re going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections...

It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do.

It was a little weird. My parents and everybody is here, so I’m glad I pitched well or I’d be in a bad mood right now.

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn’t say any of this.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

It wasn’t until I got ‘SNL’ that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.

I got my dad a great father’s Day present. He called to say: ‘Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

My father’s parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to...

He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the...

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they’re away? To come home and keep you safe?

I haven’t seen him in over a month, and of course my parents are over in Europe, so it’s a little different not having them here. Coming out of juniors, they were always there for...

The reason for a review is concerns relating to the way that parents have some say and participation, … Our problem is the process is so limited. They’re looking at the bylaws with the intent...