I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents".
I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.
My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care.
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'
[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.
My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.
My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'
A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.
