#parent

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio. ↗

— John Tesh

#chemistry #death #eventually #got #grew

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. ↗

— Jared Harris

#assumed #cast #i #lawyer #lost

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#could #dance #dancing #i #parents

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ↗

— Michael Levine

#parenting

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#best #children #convinced #educators #experts

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#parent #prohibited #single #single parent #working

My parents were Christian. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#parents #were

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#apt #better #children #examples #forget

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#apparent #benefit #does #entail #loss

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork