Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.