“children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, can support yourself, and have already begun the work of creating or maintaining an extended family.” PeopleNeedsChildrenParentSupportIdentityCreatingMaintainingForgedExtended Family Author:Phyllis Chesler
“I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed and organic materials. Global conservation is a focal point of the capsule collection and it falls right in line with the change and direction I’m working towards, on a professional and personal basis. In collaborating with PBteen, we are creating a subtle and natural feel with this collection - something that has an authentic appeal for teens and their parents alike.” NeedsFeelsHelpingUseFallParentNaturalLinesAudienceMaterialsCreatingBasesAppealsCollectionsSubtleTeensConservationHonoredCollaboratingRecycledFocal Point Author:Kelly Slater
“Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.” YearsEnoughWould BeLife IsParentEffortCircumstancesCreatingJokesDebtTreatedSufficientVaryOutrageousSuitablePresentingSustainingDrasticVouchersRepayment Author:Frank Pittman
“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.” SchoolFormCultureStrongParentAbilityLevelsTalentStudentsBuildingInvolvedOfficeAchievementCreatingExpectationsUltimateStrategyExtraordinaryAccountabilityAggressiveClassroomOfferingDeliberatePublic SchoolOrganisationEducation SystemHigh ExpectationsAbility To ChooseStudent Achievement Author:Wendy Kopp
“Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make a difference in creating a sense of discipline, order and loving cooperation in the home.” ChildrenHomeOrderParentDifferencesTeachDisciplineCreatingStriveMaking A DifferenceCooperationRighteousCouncilLove And RespectRespect Each OtherLoving Parents Author:M. Russell Ballard
“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.” IfsStoriesRealityKidsYoungCultureGrowsParentBehindsMoralGrowing UpBedCreatingAdultsLettersMirrorsAlbumsAlternativesTeenagerThis DaySmarterDishonestyMattressesTentaclesMoral Of The Story Author:Jello Biafra
“Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles. Love can manifest in so many ways - love between parent and child, husband and wife, partner and partner, teacher and student, service volunteer and recipient, God and one's spirit. The manifestations of love are innumerable.” WayChildrenSpiritForceParentLove IsPowerfulTeacherWifeStudentsHusbandCreatingCapableMiraclePartnersManifestationCosmosMost PowerfulManifestVolunteerHusband And WifeChildren And ParentsTeacher And Student Author:Mike Love
“From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.” KindIdeasParentGenerationsCreatingPartnershipRomantic LoveOffspring Author:Aasif Mandvi
“We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.” LooksParentAnimalEffectsDrugCreatingSickLifestyleTortureGrandparentLaboratorySlaughterAbusiveParents And GrandparentsLooking To The Future Author:Sharon Gannon
“My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.” WorldYearsLittlesSelfFeelingsSchoolHouseGivenParentNaturalChurchCreatingMy FamilyTinySunsetSundayButterflyNatural WorldFew WordsSunday SchoolOld SelfAstounded Author:Cheryl Strayed
“As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.” MindSelfFeelingsFatherParentProduceBrotherCreatingMy BrotherWarningDislikeElevation Author:George Muller