My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
Jim: I can't remember what my parents look like.
Tim: Your foster parents are kinda dicks, huh?
The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.
I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
