As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.
