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Parent Quotes by Dave Barry
- To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
- I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
- Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original…
- Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all…
- Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,…
- My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over…
- I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell…
- A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.
- If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This…
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- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot