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Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

As a parent, I know that the State has no greater responsibility than protecting the safety of our children.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.

The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with a disability can be included. Just give them a chance and let them learn. That's what the show was trying to teach.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

When you inject capital into the parent, it may or may not benefit the subsidiary.

Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.