“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.” PeopleChildrenParentClassRichMiddleNew YorkTelevisionGrewGrew UpRaisedEntertainmentMiddle ClassRich PeopleOnly Child Author:Billy Eichner
“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
“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.” WorldRealityHouseParentTelevisionGrewGrew UpMy FamilyAccidentsFarmsMy SisterBubblesDishesStorytellerFamily FarmsSmall Family Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.” FirstsLanguageParentTelevisionGrandparentSign Language Author:Jack Jason
“I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.” ChildrenStillsShowsWaitingParentTelevisionRegretAnd LoveGuiltTunesNo RegretsTelevision ShowsHaving ChildrenNanniesHave No RegretsGood ParentPatience And Love Author:Amanda Donohoe
“Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.” WantNeedsShouldChildrenTwoRealAsksEasyParentSleepResponsibilityExampleTelevisionBedSatisfiedToysPits Author:Haim Ginott
“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.” TryingChildrenLittlesDifferentPlayTodaySocialParentResultsDealsTeacherPlayerSharePositionTelevisionMetsAuthorityTasksDoctorsWorkersContraryProducersScoreMultitudesOrchestraHelplessnessInferiorityConductorSocial WorkerMaestro Author:Kenneth Keniston
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.” TryingFirstsChildrenPlayHelpingJobsParentUnderstandingPleasureMoralSupportStruggleShareTelevisionInvolvedOffersConflictEncouragementWork OutAccomplishmentMasteryPersistSchedulesHomeworkTry AgainSupport And EncouragementMoral Support Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.” WantFirstsDoeHomeAbleSchoolNightParentTelevisionOffersDaughterHonestlyLifestyleMy DaughterTraveledNomadicFirst Day Of SchoolRecitalsWorking Parents Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.” PlayUsedStuffParentCreativityCreativeTelevisionHorseWoodsHuts Author:Jan Brett
“To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.” TryingArtParentSupportFansTelevisionProudClubsPerformingVisualsVisual Art Author:Chris Burke
“Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.” ChildrenLyingParentTeachTelevisionTvsRaisedAdsExaggeration Author:Louise Hay
“Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesWholeYoungParentUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsTelevisionRight NowComputerCustomersMysteriousGrantedHittingButtonsMicePointing Author:Andy Grove
“I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?” KnowsMenWorldGivingMeanChildrenRealityKidsCoursesParentWatchesFocusFrontsTelevisionBagsDepressingCartoonPillsOf ContextFreaking OutYuppiesReally Depressing Author:Emily Haines
“My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'” I CanNightParentCan DoLaughingSawsComedyHeardTelevisionLaughterUnderstoodCamerasSense Of HumorLaughedOne NightCandidPranksCandid Camera Author:Howie Mandel