I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents’ Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don’t have to resist you.

Don’t spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: ‘Only if I did not know that I was doing...

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel’s playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed “a moment to themselves.” The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment,...

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn’t as hunky-dory like it was.

I don’t know what my dad went through. My parents never talked to us about his time on the police department, so I’m not sure what he went through.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They’ve never seen an argument. There’s never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end...

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

You’re adopted” smile.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I...

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that...

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren’t too supportive of my career choices.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

My parents, man, they’re just the most loving, encouraging… They’re like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother with a...

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline — maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents’ generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it’s yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.

…all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling...

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me – before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents’ legs and cowered...

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes. -Vane Weston

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he...

I can’t remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

It is essential that we continue to educate administrators, coaches, parents, players, staff and volunteers on the negative effects of hazing.

I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I’m one...

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That ‘Builds Character.

Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

Why is every mom’s concern about sex? There are more important things in life, like school, careers, poetry, books, ice cream, or learning how to make the perfect chocolate cake. It’s so damn frustrating.

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing ‘chauffer’ for one more year.

The return to the “Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name” allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my...

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York’s La MaMa theater company – without my parents!

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy...

I am my parents’ daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I...

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids...