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• There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

  Rossana Condoleo

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• When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

  Tom Hodgkinson

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  Tags in Parent, Serious

• As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.

  Sam Harris

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• I always thought I’d make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

  Neil Patrick Harris

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  Tags in Solitary, Parent

• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

  Richard Whately

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  Tags in Attention, Parent

• My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  Rafael Nadal

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  Tags in Divorce, Parent

• Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

  Gene Hackman

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  Tags in Parent, Oftentimes

• Now that I have kids, I’m probably more overprotective than I’ve ever been. My wife’s nickname for me is ‘red alert.’ I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

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  Tags in Parent, Red

• I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

  Danny Strong

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  Tags in Divorce, Parent

• I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I’d adopt.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

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  Tags in I Remember, Parent

• My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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  Tags in Possibilities, Parent

• A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

  Michael Sheen

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  Tags in Parent, Angry

• A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I have a child and I’m a parent first of all.

  Izabella Scorupco

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• Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

  Adam Sandler

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• There are certain things you learn to do as a parent – using every single part of your body because you’re multitasking all the time. You’re holding the baby and you’re closing the door with your left foot.

  Amy Ryan

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• Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

  Dee Snider

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

  Dee Snider

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Parent

• You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It’s like, oh my God. It’s crazy.

  Boomer Esiason

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