#parent

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#action #child #every #expression #facial

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#her #his #incomplete #individual #irrational

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ↗

— John Sculley

#abuse #children #educate #expect #failings

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#always #attorney #being #completely #could

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#become #been #business #captain #daughter

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#continues #disaster #getting #immense #iraq

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #come #country #given #grandparents

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#better #between #continue #conversations #endless

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#could #easily #had #kept #life

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#good #good parent #had #home #home life