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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British. ↗


— Michael King


#britain #british #child #coherence #commonwealth

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop. ↗


— Jim Knight


#children #feedback #feel #frustrated #give

It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like something — a much-loved pet perhaps — salvaged from a tragic house fire. “But I think I scraped off most of the burned part,” she would add, overlooking that this included every bit of it that had once been flesh. Happily, all this suited my father. His palate only responded to two tastes - burned and ice cream — so everything suited him so long as it was sufficiently dark and not too startlingly flavorful. Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven, for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my dad. ↗


— Bill Bryson


#humor #parents #food

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. ↗


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#burned #family #family members #get #got

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself. ↗


— Linda Vester


#i #me #myself #parents #prove

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ↗


— Gore Vidal


#because #children #encounter #expecting #forever

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping. ↗


— Alicia Vikander


#babysitter #divorced #doing #find #i

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced. ↗


— Judith Viorst


#believe #better #children #expect #our

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do. ↗


— John Walters


#friends #keep #know #monitor #parents

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them. ↗


— John Walters


#biggest #biggest influence #children #influence #parents






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