Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything.
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
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.
The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
Karen Pommeroy: The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
