#parents

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#parents #respect #respect

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. ↗

— Noah Webster

#children #obedience #parents #obedience

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#child #children #frightening #home #however

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#model #models #paid #parents #role

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!' ↗

— Samantha Barks

#alive #business #girl #go #go for it

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. ↗

— Dave Barry

#afford #become #believe #cannot #children

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blaming #cards #dealt #did #failures

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#families #far #kids #many #parents