I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.
People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.
You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.
Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
