“Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.” ChristianValuesParentSawsDogBabyConcernedSacredAncientContradictionFeedingRabbitsPottersFamily ValuesJungBoomersBaby BoomerAnthropomorphism Author:Peter York
“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.” ThinkingChildrenSelfSeemsParentDifferencesSelf EsteemToughConcernedAssumingWesternEsteemBehaveImmigrantsFragilityPsychImmigrant Parents Author:Amy Chua
“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.” WorldWayYearsKindChildrenHelpingUseRealityParentGoalCan DoDealsKnowingShapesConcernedOur ChildrenAlternativesMaskCrucialSuggestionsUrgentUsing Words Author:Betty Edwards
“Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.” ThinkingAmericaFatherParentLeaderHolyDrugConcernedFairsMeetingsAmbassadorsNancyMadridFlamenco Author:Ronald Reagan
“I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.” ThinkingLittlesParentPerfectConcernedSafetyStrict Author:Dan O'Brien
“I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.” IfsWorldTwoStoriesEyeParentConcernedThirdsClockPocketsDigitalBootsExpectingAlasStory Of My LifeGodmotherCalculators Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.” PersonsValuesBeliefParentCommonVisionTeacherConcernedCoachesRelateGreat TeacherGreat CoachGreat ParentsPsychotherapists Author:Nathaniel Branden
“Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.” SpiritualValuesParentMoralTerribleDiseaseStandardsConcernedAbandonedProtectiveComplicationStandards And Values Author:Boyd K. Packer
“My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.” KnowsKidsParentDarkConcerned Author:Matt Berninger
“One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!” PeopleKnowsFirstsFactsShowsParentGenerationsOne ThingInformationMomInternetConcernedMy MomRelateGrandparentNavigateOur GenerationFingertips Author:Sarah Steele
“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?” SaidTwoDifferentStoriesFoundHouseParentSawsHappenedEventsSonConcernedDecidedClubsChickensPortionsLocationTrue Story Author:Paul Haggis
“I think it's a sign of a gotcha political system that's looking to take down public interest candidates that they make a big deal out of a comment to a parent concerned about the exposure of young children to Wi-Fi. Now it turns out that Wi-Fi is actually untested. A large study by the NIH [National Institutes of Health] released a month ago raised serious questions about whether kids ought to be exposed, whether young children ought to be exposed to Wi-Fi. And you know, I'm not saying they should or they shouldn't but that this should be studied. Absolutely it should be studied.” ThinkingKnowsShouldChildrenBigsKidsYoungPoliticalTurnsParentInterestDealsStudySeriousMonthsOughtConcernedRaisedCandidatesCommentExposedExposureBig DealInstitutePolitical SystemsYoung ChildrenPublic InterestInstitutes Author:Jill Stein
“It's what [Hillary Clinton] embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and so forth. Because logically none of this makes any sense, as you are encountering. So you're trying to confront all these people with logic, and I would maintain to you that they don't have any where this is concerned.” PeopleTryingChildrenParentConcernedLogicClintonMystiqueParent Child Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.” ThinkingChildrenJoyUniverseParentWorryConcernedExtraordinaryIncrediblesMost AmazingBeing A Parent Author:Alison Gopnik
“I have a strange situation as far as my name is concerned, because of course, what should my name really be? Is it my traditional Jewish name? Or this curious name my parents put together, partially to honor departed family members, and partially to keep me away from the absolute craziness of my grandparents' fame and the intrusiveness of their fans? So many people call me "MTT," and some do say, "Oh Maestro," and some are comfortable calling me Michael.” PeopleTogetherParentSituationStrangeHonorFameConcernedCuriousCall MeCrazinessDeparted Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.” IfsWantInspirationalShouldFirstsChildrenMotivationalFallActorsParentActingFineConcernedFall Back Author:Ewan McGregor
“As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.” IfsGivenParentEducationCollegeWindConcernedIllCollege EducationScrabble Author:Sargent Shriver
“All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.” WellsChildrenKidsThreeParentConcernedWell Being Author:Tom Brady
“They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.” WayShouldChildrenKidsMovingCoursesGrowsParentGrowing UpAdventureReadyConcernedEmptyExcitedGrievingGrandchildrenNestsChildren And GrandchildrenWryPiqueEmpty Nest Book:Dreamfever: Fever Series Source: Dreamfever: Fever Series
“This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.” WorldChildrenOrderParentPayFailingTaxesLateConcernedStonesMathematicsSafetyTongueDesperateCracksHeartbrokenWithout LoveFranticFireplaces Author:Lauren Oliver
“I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?” IfsThinkingWholeBeliefParentHabitConcernedScientistBunchSelfishnessWhat IfThank GodBelief Systems Author:Veronica Roth
“I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.” ThinkingProblemKidsParentBasketballConcerned Author:Charles Barkley
“From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.” LoveHas BeensMomentsAgeMotherFatherForceParentViolenceCenturyBabyBirthConcernedStonesDestroyingTwentieth CenturyStone Age Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience