“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.” ChildrenProblemFormParentInfluenceTelevisionColorProductsBabyExpectationsMotherhoodShadeAdsProblem SolvingBeing A Parent Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.” IfsTryingIdeasKidsTodayFacesMotivationCultureParentBlackChallengesWhitePoorRichWifeColorBalanceHusbandGirlfriendLoved OnesCousinFamily LoveYour HusbandBlack WhiteGood ParentRich PoorGreat ParentsWork Family Author:Dwayne Johnson
“My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.” LooksSelfBigsParentRaceIdentityColorRaisedSelf Identity Author:Robert Griffin III
“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.” PeopleLooksAmericaScienceParentGrowthBornReligiousNiceDyingColorOceanHollywoodAimVictimTiredProfitCuriousFakeEnterpriseSpiteSunshineLos AngelesCollapseDragMultitudesDoomedCultBreezePioneersPoisonousHazeReligious CultsWildcatsChanging Colors Author:Louis Adamic
“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.” ThinkingChildrenHandsEarthParentLossGriefDivineColorFlowerOur ChildrenYour ChildrenTouchedShadeThink Of YouBloomingWitheredParent ChildLoss Of A Parent Author:Richard Hooker
“The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.” PeopleParentBlackWhiteClassColorHonorBlack And WhiteUniformsWorking ClassGroundedJanitorColor Black Author:Janelle Monae
“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.” PeopleWorldMotherParentIssuesRightsMovementColorFeministActiveCivil RightsActivistMarginalizedFeminist Movement Author:Anna Holmes
“I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.” ThinkingMeanMotherParentColorBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilyYeahSensesMy BrotherSense Of HumorSurvivedFoulNaughty Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black and white, we've got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn't care what color you are, and it doesn't care how rich your parents are, and it doesn't care what God you pray to. It's an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.” MenMayCareTogetherHateWinningStarsParentGoalBlackWhiteCommonRichColorPrayingCircumstancesGayBallsMirrorsDancingTerroristUsaWorking TogetherBlessBlack And WhiteAsianGod BlessGlitterHispanicCommon GoalDancing With The Stars Author:Adam Carolla
“I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.” PeopleHouseParentBlackColorBabyKingsIsolatedLater In LifeBoomersBaby BoomerBlack Music Author:Jess Row
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.” ParentTaughtColorJudgingSkins Author:Taylor Swift