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“Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.”

People Trying Ideas Kids Together Opportunity Parent Offers Copies Carbon Aunt Love Each Other Chimes

Author:Sara Sheridan

“My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.”

Kids Names Parent Brother Letters Silent Our Family My Brother My Sister Carried Away

Author:Paula Poundstone

“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”

World Way Firsts Children Kids Parent Situation Immigrants Topsy Turvy

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.”

Ifs Said Kids Father Given Parent Ability Coaches

Author:Ray Lewis

“Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.”

World Ends Kids Parent Talking Spending Coaches Supposed To Be More Time Belittle Coming To An End

Author:Ray Lewis

“Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Children Problem Kids Parent Environment Figures Involved Our Children Coaches Your Children More Time Nuggets

Author:Ray Lewis

“Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'”

Should Firsts May Kids Today Parent Taught Mom Coaches Coming Back Dropping Always Working Working Parents

Author:Ray Lewis

“I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents saying they showed my video to their kids because they were complaining. It is the hope that that parent will go a bit deeper and know that ultimately Nick actually puts his hope into something bigger than himself. He puts it in Jesus Christ.”

Knows Kids Jesus Bits Parent Christ Levels Jesus Christ Bigger Inspired Deeper Complaining Video Curious Intrigued

Author:Nick Vujicic

“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Children Book Kids Reading Parent Objects Possession

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.”

Ifs Giving Trying Doe Self Reason Kids Games Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Failing Produce Healthy Adults Self Confidence Fixed Dependent

Author:Simon Sinek

“Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.”

Ifs Years Kids Opportunity Games Sports Parent Challenges Team Huge Dad My Dad Coaches Being The Best Pitching Softball

Author:Jennie Finch

“Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.”

Ifs Knows Helping Use Kids Parent Know How Smartphones

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Children Book Enough Kids Parent Lines Sitting Fingers Bother Lap Good Parent Tracing Pediatrician

Author:Julie Andrews

“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.”

People Knows Children Shows Kids Parent Growing Up Growing Havens Dad Married Dumb Be You Cartoon Cartoon Shows

Author:Matt Groening

“The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.”

“My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.”

Kids Parent Agents

Author:Graham Phillips

“It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.”

Way Firsts Said Kids Young Parent Approach Consequence Obesity Overweight

Author:Lisa Ling

“I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Thinking Looks Real Kids Parent Bed Moved Real Life Like Me Relate Chasing Coping Spills Why Me Unmade Beds

Author:Sharon Stone

“Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.”

Kids Choices Parent Driving Mcdonalds

Author:Bill Vaughan

“As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.”

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Author:Joan Cusack

“I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.”

People Want Feels Feelings Home Kids Today Fun Parent Love You Lucky Dinner Annoyed Juxtaposition Love You So Much Love My Parents I Love My Parents

Author:Jonah Hill

“It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.”

People Want Important Seems Kids Age Today Parent Decision Failing Position Refuse Great Things Protected Aspire Important Decisions

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.”

Kids Parent Answers Preacher

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.”

Years Two War Kids Parent Military Huge Mom Dad Discipline

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.”

Kids Parent Abundance Holiday Divorced Divorced Parents

Author:Deb Caletti

“I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.”

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Author:Tom Colicchio

“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.”

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Author:Andreas Deja

“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”

“Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.”

Kids Grows Parent Attachment Syndromes Affectionate Down Syndrome

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.”

Want Kids Parent Path

Author:David Beckham

“It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.”

Ifs Thinking Self Kids Parent Destructive Grandparent Self Destructive Manipulative

Author:Anne Lamott

“Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.”

Kids Parent Adults Come Up Beaten

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Pressure Yeah Athlete Grooming Professional Athlete

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Achieve Pressure

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.”

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Author:Jack Black

“My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.”

Kids Wanted School Parent Records Brother Mom My Mom Damn Jam Old School Marvin

Author:Solange Knowles

“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.”

Ifs Mean Whole Happens Kids Parent Break Failing Partners Breaking Down Arena Sibling Disappoint Dysfunction Enchiladas

Author:Mary Karr

“Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.”

Kids Parent

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.”

Long Moments Kids School Parent Welcome Holiday Family Holiday

Author:Jose Andres

“I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.”

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Author:Lemon Andersen

“Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?”

Ifs Writing Kids Parent Talking Son Bears What If My Son Vocabulary

Author:Claire Cameron

“My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.”

Stills Kids School Remember Parent Black Community Poor Lawyer Shore Eastern Remember When Public School Our Community Rural Communities

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.”

“The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.”

Littles Kids Used Parent Evolve Drag Renaissance

Author:Jonathan Cain

“Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.”

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Author:Sal Albanese

“Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.”

Knows Helping Kids Parent Race Athlete Coaches Scolding

Author:Don Kardong

“When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.”

Thinking Kids Parent Natural Leader Roles Models Followers Role Models Microscopes

Author:Chip Conley

“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.”

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