My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers’ education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing...

I was brought up in a way that when you’re at a dinner party, you don’t grab a chip unless it’s been offered to everyone else. It’s the manners of being brought up by English...

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish,...

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land,...

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and...

Because they no longer live with their parents, they’ll need to insure their car on their own. They may find that insurance is very expensive. College grads tend to want to go out and buy...

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I don’t know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents’ marriage. And it’s interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

That’s the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don’t really care, or at least they don’t care enough to let it affect the outcome.

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred – Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned...

This is so disrespectful to parents.

Thirteen years and six albums to get here, … I’d like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual. And I stand here tonight and represent nothing but music.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

I want parents out there to know that it’s totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were...

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care...

a very competitive season for parents’ dollars.

They bounce pretty quickly from one activity to the next. Sometimes it is more difficult on the parents and the adults than it is on the kids.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best – it’s so embarrassing, isn’t it? I was always the best at everything.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don’t parent, kids grow up fast.

Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism....

We want to communicate to the parents and the general public . . . of the direction we’re going.

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

I’m quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

Milton’s learned vocabulary […] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents’ speech as heard by the child.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don’t want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

It’s hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

Eros mumbled something.”I’m sorry?” said Aphrodite.”Whatwouldjesusdo.””What would Jesus do?” said Aphrodite. “Let me tell you something. Jesus was a very good boy. He would do exactly what his mother told him to.””But-“”Jesus was supposed to...

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name’s ‘Jorma.’ I didn’t watch much television growing up because they weren’t into it at all.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship....

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

My parents didn’t know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

but my dad said it was no excuse.”But I love him!” I had never seen my sister cry that much.”No, you don’t.””I hate you!””No, you don’t.” My dad can be very calm sometimes.”He’s my whole...