“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.” WantWritingChildrenHandsAbleSchoolParentStudySpecialDemandTestsEarsMy ChildrenShakesStatisticsContractsPublic SchoolAccountingCalculusPrepsSpecial Education Author:Amity Shlaes
“I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.” ThinkingMindStatesAbleParentUnitedUnited StatesCitizensChinaEducatedFranceGlobal Citizen Author:Anna Sui
“At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.” AbleWantedParentActingMovedKeep GoingLooking Pretty Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesLongDoeFactsRunningAbleYoungBitsParentHavensBabyLittle BitSelfishMates Author:Nick Moran
“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.” LittlesImportantEnoughAbleWantedParentUnderstandingSuccessfulCollegeLuckyPursueBeing Successful Author:Allison Williams
“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.” Has BeensHardAbleParentRoomsWatchesSonBlessedEnlightenedLocks Author:A. Scott Berg
“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.” NeedsGivingAbleSchoolAsksIndividualStrongParentDecisionTeacherDesignStudentsProgramPartnershipPermissionBureaucracyFlexibilityPublic SchoolCharterSchool Teachers Author:Gary Larson
“The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.” IfsWantYearsAbleArtistParentLosesStepsTeamFansWorstFiguresMajorsOkayBiggerIndependentBlowLabelsCorporateFarmsAccommodateBlowing Up Author:El-P
“The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.” RunningAbleParentSoundMiseryLegsAccidentsTinyBurningCrashLimbs Author:Martin Caidin
“Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.” KidsAbleSchoolSocialParentPlansMiddleDiscussionFadesCrudeMiddle SchoolSupervision Author:Bill Vaughan
“I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.” KnowsAbleSchoolJobsMotherParentKeysHigh SchoolLet MeOrganizedDecentGood Job Author:Jeremih
“It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.” FeelsMeanPersonsDifferentBigsAbleMovingParentAuthorityAppreciateMatureSmarterTurning PointsPoints In Life Author:Ryan Sheckler
“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.” ChildrenHelpingMightEyeAbleFeltParentDyingTearsInvolved Author:C. Everett Koop
“I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.” ThinkingWantNeedsChildrenAbleYoungSportsParentEnvironmentSafeFacilityAffordableYoung ChildrenSafe Environment Author:Hope Powell
“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.” DifferentAbleSpeakLanguageParentGrewGrew UpPhonesVideoEmbarrassingDeafPhone CallsDifferent Languages Author:Jack Jason
“I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.” ThinkingAbleWishParentInformationTaughtLocalsHeritageGrandparentLocal History Author:Gary Gygax
“I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.” ThinkingReasonAbleWantedSchoolParentHigh SchoolEnjoyedReason WhyFarmsWeekendFarmingInitials Author:Ian Wilmut
“Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.” PeopleAbleYoungParentMillionsPlansProudSixHealthcare Author:Barack Obama
“I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.” WayKidsAbleRememberParentDebateVocal Author:Mindy Kaling
“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.” PeopleFirstsDifferentKidsAbleLastsNamesParentCommonGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsAfrican AmericanNigeria Author:Terry Gross
“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesImportantIdeasDreamKidsAbleWantedParentBoysSupportCrazyMomMy MomAccessImmigrantsRacingBikeSupportiveSurfingCrazy ThingsBoy ScoutBmx Author:Terry Gross
“I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.” IfsKnowsMeanCountryDreamAbleWantedParentLuckyBroads Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.” FeelsFirstsHeartChildrenAbleParentPleasureLearningSeeingObjectsMortalsEnjoyedThrilling Author:Sarah Josepha Hale
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.” WorldLifeChildrenLongAbleParentChangeSecretKnowledgeCreaturesRegardOur ChildrenForgottenSomedayManipulationManipulateRevealingMessengersSecret LifeDeepness Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence