My mom was a single parent.
I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.
My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'
Itβs very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with Βchildren with any kind of special needs is very difficult.
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.
'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
