#parent

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#boundaries #explore #given #increasingly #message

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#bad #bad taste #bathtub #books #emblem

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently. ↗

— Anthony Head

#apparently #area #bit #bug #eating

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body. ↗

— Yehuda Amichai

#love

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#elders #include #like #masonic #mysteries

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#before #cast #chest #childish #five

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#care #commitment #contraception #coverage #firmly

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#children #desert #disadvantage #good #good parent

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality