Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton