Quotes of: Parental Keyword

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

Marvin Olasky

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, re...

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents wa...

The Sense of an Ending

I wasn't going to have dessert, but it was right there, all gooey and sweet. It's like sex. I mean, when it's right there, what are you supposed to do? I wasn't going to have that either--sex--with my parents bunking in the office, but, well, it was ...

New York to Dallas

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes spoken of by him as the ‘Other’ — as that which like language is always anterior to ...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not ac...

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadership approach taken by Lululemon's CEO, Christine Day. In a video interview with CNN Money, Day explained that she was once a very bright, smart executi...

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk ...

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Carine McCandless: With almost a year having passed since Chris' disappearance my parents' anger had turned to desperation. Their guilt was giving way to pain. And pain seemed to bring them closer. Even their faces had changed. She convinces herself ...

Into the Wild

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap ...

Abraham Hicks

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Chip Chip Chaw!

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.

The Coming Insurrection

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979

I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.

Deadeye Dick

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Dead in the Family

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

The Dead of Summer

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Does My Head Look Big In This?

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Fire

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

A Hologram for the King