Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.
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.
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.
