Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

We really try to get parents and children working together on this. We try to promote a responsibility on parents' side to talk with their children about finances.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

As policymakers - and as parents - we have a responsibility to examine the effects of media on our children, a responsibility this legislation can better enable us to fulfill. No one is looking out, in a systematic way, for cumulative impact of today's newer electronic media on our children.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.