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“Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?”
“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”
“Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.”
“I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.”
“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”
“To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.”
“I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'”
“I'm lucky I have really cool parents.”
“Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.”
“My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”
“My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.”
“I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.”
“When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd s...”
“My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.”
“I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.”
“My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.”
“The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.”
“I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.”
“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight...”
“I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I real...”
