#parent

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#disadvantage #dyslexia #fortunate #hard #huge

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#believes #child #children #fact #go

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent. ↗

— Lee Haney

#eat #enforce #kids #most #must

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. ↗

— Lee Haney

#cliche #example #first #i #i do

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#parents #restaurant

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#any #better #busy #calm #children

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through. ↗

— Jill Hennessy

#brings #child #children #easier #empathize

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#another #apparently #bad #charge #credit

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#always #apparent #appeals #become #born