In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.
George Michael
MotherDayParentEnoughGayPerson
The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.
Drew Barrymore
BestParentYouLead By ExampleKind
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
J. B. Smoove
ParentSurvivalImportantSurviving
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong
BestPerfectionSleepParentWant
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.
Dee Rees
ChildPeopleParentYouWantOkay
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.' It becomes a task then.
Kate DiCamillo
JoyReadingParentYouGoPrivilege
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
Jim Knight
TechnologyChildParentInformation
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
Eva Amurri
ResponsibilityParentYearYouFind
I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
Debbie Gibson
PracticeThinkParentPlayWantKid
Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.
Karamo Brown
ParentingParentHardHonestBeing
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.
Jodie Foster
PainEyeParentYouBodyLook
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
Emma Donoghue
ParentYouEmotionsNormalBeing
Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.
David Viscott
ChildrenChildParentsParentTry
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
Hamish Bowles
MotherChildhoodThinkParentPurple
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
Jessica Valenti
BestChildBuildingParentMagic
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Elizabeth Edwards
EnergyParentYoungNeverThanDid
Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
Christie Brinkley
LoveJobToughParentYouListen
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
Fiona Apple
GoodMyselfMeParentGrowLearn
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.
Jennifer Lynch
JobChildWorldBelieveParentYou
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
David Frost
ChildParentYouTwoRefereeMakes
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Cindy Crawford
LoveGoodChildrenMomThinkParent
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Carl Karcher
MoneyPainChildParentWellEase
Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.
Jennie Garth
AgeMistakesParentYouLazyKid
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
Charles Best
SchoolParentPovertyDifferences
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