When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
