Quotes About Parents
That they often do not even reach it is apparent to many parents and to most educators. The reasons for the failure are many, ranging all the way from various kinds of deprivations in the home environment—economic, social, and/or intellectual (including parental illiteracy)—to personal problems of all kinds (including total revolt against "the system").
~ Mortimer J. Adler
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Each morning he begs his parents not to read the newspaper, knowing how their faces go half-blank and mad
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
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But suddenly, it was ok — indeed, it was "necessary" — to provide no school for the kids. To offer no community college or university for the young adults. Because, because . . . COVID. Parents all over were praying that kids could go back to school in the fall of 2020. They did not know that decisions were already being made, above their heads.
~ Naomi Wolf
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My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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It is a scientifically acknowledged fact that any infant a few months old has an unerring instinct for sensing the exact moment in the early hours when his parents have managed to nod off, so he can raise the tone of his cries, thereby ensuring they don't get more than thirty minutes' sleep at a time.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Es un hecho científicamente comprobado que cualquier infante de pocos meses de vida sabe detectar con instinto infalible ese momento exacto de la madrugada en que sus padres han conseguido conciliar el sueño para elevar el lanto y evitar así que puedan descansar más de treinta minutos seguidos.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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He had been relfecting, while staring at the fringed blue petals, about love, about the long steady way his imperfect parents managed to love each other, and about his own deficient love for Dorrie, how it came and went, how he kept finding it and losing it again. And now, here in this garden maze, getting lost, and then found, seemed the whole point, that and the moment of willed abandonment, the unexpected rapture of being blindly led.
~ Carol Shields
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That most people with autism have some degree of SPD is a recognized fact. Understanding how sensory and motor problems complicate the child's daily life is crucial for designing an appropriate intervention program. Parents must ensure that their child's treatment program includes ample sensory-motor experiences and an individualized sensory diet.
~ Carol Stock Kranowitz
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At the church, Brian took charge of Frank, handling him as well as any medic, keeping the extra parents of the bride happy.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
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A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents. Brenda said, grumbling. They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?
~ Carrie Vaughn
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Disbelieving, Evan and Brenda stared after them. "A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents," Brenda said, grumbling. "They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?
~ Carrie Vaughn
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Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.
~ Cecelia Ahern
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When people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, 'Bold ground,' then you pick yourself up and get on with it.
~ Cecelia Ahern
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Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying "Bold ground," then you pick yourself up and get on with it.
~ Cecelia Ahern
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Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is.
~ Cecelia Ahern
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It is important to note that the stress we feel as parents is not generated by our adult child with autism, but rather from the failings of the systems in place that are supposedly there to help us. There are caring people in the systems, yet often the lack of options and foresight and inability to plan ahead or provide options for our loved ones are accepted as normal by the systems in place.
~ Chantal Sicile-Kira
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It is true that Jeremy could see naked girls dancing in strip clubs in San Diego, but parents reading this will appreciate that, since our loved ones on the spectrum tend to have obsessive tendencies, I was not about to tell Jeremy that. Obsessions with French fries I can deal with. Let him think he has to travel to Las Vegas to see naked girls dancing.
~ Chantal Sicile-Kira
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This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.
~ Charlaine Harris
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All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.
~ Mick Fleetwood
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I was 22 years old, actually, incidentally had just been laid off from my job and I had a dog. My parents just didn't understand any of it.
~ Simu Liu
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Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
~ Thurston Moore
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I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
~ Kathryn Harrison
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
~ Igor Luksic
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Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.
~ Anne Reid
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