Best 3570 quotes in «parent quotes» category

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.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated--which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

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

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

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.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.