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When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.

I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no - it was the Eisenhower period, and no parent wanted their kid going steady, so it wasn't a thing that you could endorse as proper behavior on the air.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Being a parent is very important to me.

As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

If you're a parent, love your children. If you're married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I'm talking about real relationships, not false intimacies.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

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.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

You earn the title 'parent.' I have done absolutely nothing to earn that title.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids.

I'm not fanatical about exercise, but I am really fastidious about trying to be a good parent.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

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.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.