I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had… — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
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Some of these parents out here need to start raising their kids right. A mother should not have a daughter and be… — Deshawn Branch Copy Share Image
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My parents are brilliant, and they've never been anything other than supportive. But my mum, when I told them that I changed… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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“I sulked into the living room and sat on the couch with my back turned away from the enemies who said they… — Megan Jean Sovern Copy Share Image
They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
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My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
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I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
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There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
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Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
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It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
My parents are so supportive of whatever we want to do and completely nurtured that, and they're so proud of that as… — Hannah John-Kamen Copy Share Image
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Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Kids don't want stand-ins on parents' weekend, no matter how much they might love those stand-ins. They don't want stand-ins to talk… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
![“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's…” quote by Dorothy H Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/dorothy-h-cohen-33807_children_they-parents-can-help-the-children-work_1614472.jpg)
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