#parent

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. ↗

— Laura Dern

#been #desire #mine #parents #work

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#already #been #being #comfortable #denial

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#connected #family #global #had #i

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#away #children #going #home #keeps

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

#could #ends #exciting #exciting thing #father

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #been #before #being #between

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#being #children #feelings #having #love

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#i #legal #married #more #now

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean? ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#i think #into #kids #know #mean