#parent

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#develop #emotional #enjoy #enjoy life #healthy

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. ↗

— Judy Davis

#be the first #dying #first #generation #kids

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents. ↗

— Mike DeWine

#defy #encouraging #entertainment #entertainment industry #industry

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#lot #me #parents #take #theatre

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#god #had #parents #patience #thank

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.' ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#dough #get #kid #know #none

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both. ↗

— Bridgette Wilson

#be different #because #both #dad #different

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#house #inside #lived #parents #pillows