For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.
I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
