Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.
When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.
No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
