All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!
As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
