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If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

I'll never have the seniority of lions of the Senate who've been in office for decades. What I do have is a lifetime of experience as a parent and activist, small business owner, and lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It's one of the greatest things, too, but it's also probably the hardest thing anybody ever does.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

Bindi's really, you know, got her own goals and aspirations, and if I can nurture what Bindi loves, then I think I'm being a good parent. Because Bindi's got a natural love for wildlife, I think that will be part of what we're nurturing.

I think that if you are a very conservative Christian parent, and your kid deviates from what is so important to you, that is very painful. And then it's probably 100 times more painful when they are a public figure, for lack of a better term.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on to ask, 'What would you do to protect your kid from harm's way?' any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, 'Anything.'

Like any doting parent, I believe the most important work we do is the way we bring up our children.

As a parent you cannot support your child striking from school.

We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front line of such a huge question like climate change. You wouldn't want that as a parent.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.