Parent Quotes - Page 90

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.

I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. Im really drawn to those as well. All different genres.

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I'm still passionate now about my job, but when I first started out as a kid, I was so motivated. No one had ever acted in my family before, and my parents had no idea how to help with that. I would leave notes on my parents pillow every night at 13 saying, "Please help me find an agent!" Eventually it worked, so I relate to that go-getter mentality.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives.