Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with a disability can be included. Just give them a chance and let them learn. That's what the show was trying to teach.
Like every child of divorce, I had parent-trap fantasies. In fact, 'The Parent Trap' was my favourite movie. I was a Nineties baby, so I particularly loved the Lindsay Lohan version.
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team - from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders - needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.