I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because I wanted to be an actor. My parents are both teachers.
Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
