My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event. ' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.
I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.
When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.
Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die. And then some. Mum, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mum.
Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.