- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents Quotes
On parents, and the paths they set.
This collection covers a filmmaker's frustration that an age rating kept her intended teenage audience away, and a memory of parents who worked as preachers shaping an early sense of faith. For a poetic take on family, see Shayari.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let's retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home. What happens online should be no different. Parents should talk with their children about computer ethics, stipulate rules of conduct, and - most importantly - establish consequences.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
- Be Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents supported me through university, and after I graduated, I got a job as an analyst at a price comparison website called TotallyMoney.com.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020