#parent

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#jobs #keep #many #may #order

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#been #better #between #bridge #california

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#burned #family #family members #get #got

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#commitment #dancer #difficult #force #frankly

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#amazing experience #best #experience #experiences #intimate

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#athlete #believe #best #confidence #developing

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#children #compelled #instruction #justice #man

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself. ↗

— Linda Vester

#i #me #myself #parents #prove

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #children #encounter #expecting #forever