parents

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Most parents are not really __upportive_ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they __upport_ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures _ in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

You wanted hatchlings.___ know. I just didn__ want those hatchlings. Personally, I blame your father.__ercelak__ eyes grew wide. __xcuse me?__n a burst of laughter, she exclaimed, __ell that came out horribly wrong!

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

Once my brother was very angry on my parents and told them __ou should have killed me when I was a child_ Interestingly I was present and told him __ don__ think it is still too late_ and I have never heard him complaining about life.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about, it has ever been thus. Each new generation, every new individual, that comes forth, is doing with you having prepared a different platform for them to proceed from. There is this thing that gets in the way of that that says, "I'm the parent. I got here first. I know more than you do." From the children's perspective, and from the purity of their Nonphysical perspective, that they are saying is, "You're the parent. You got here first. You prepared a platform that I am leaping off from - and my leap will be beyond anything that yo have ever known.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography)