Parents Quotes
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I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.
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My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
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Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
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Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
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Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.
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As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.
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If your child seems to click with another kid in the class, try to set up a time for you to meet at a park after school and get to know their parent. Seeing you be outgoing with the parents of other children will encourage your child to be open and active in their friendships, too!
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I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
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The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
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I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained.
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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
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Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.
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I have a very close relationship with my parents.
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I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
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In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
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How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."
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There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.
