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.
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.
I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
