When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.
When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficult choice, which is, you know, do I - what do I do?
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.
The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.
The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.