#parents

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#entered #into #like #needed #our

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#get #house #i #kids #kind

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#control #dictate #i #life #me

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#deepest #ever #i #i think #just

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#child #children #evil #feel #him

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#bundle #class #energy #fell #gymnastics

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#cheaper #childcare #children #choose #entirely

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#connection #crazy #deaths #far #had

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#baby #because #child #close #go