Amy Chua
Related It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ... DONNA SHALALA If parents talk to their kids about alcohol, kids will make good choices. JANE ALLEVA I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ... DARRYL PINCKNEY Parents need to talk to their children. People don't think it happens, but it does. JENNIFER GREEN BILL RANCIC DANICA MCKELLAR It ranges from advertisements in youth magazines to outreach programs targeting kids, even trying to... JOSH SUGARMANN Geographically, they're often separated from their friends, they don't hang out with kids in the nei... CATHERINE BUTLER Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, e... BARBARA DELINSKY CHRIS PINE We really want parents to spend more time and talk with their kids because communication is importan... CATRINA CORMELL PENN JILLETTE I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phone... SHERRY TURKLE I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids be... DOMINIQUE DAWES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PHIL MCGRAW JAMES PATTERSON JAMES PATTERSON LZ GRANDERSON Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a... SHERRY TURKLE Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, ps... DIRK BENEDICT LZ GRANDERSON JERRY GARCIA Travel surveys show that parents want to spend more time with their children, and, believe it or not... DOUG BENNETT Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job, ... But government can help the... ROD BLAGOJEVICH Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see... WYATT RUSSELL SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Kids have access to computers in so many places. You can't police it anymore. You have to communicat... GLENA RECORDS ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien... ELDER PORPHYRIOS If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents do... DAVID BROOKS JEAN-LUC GODARD ERNEST ISTOOK CHAZ BONO If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the ... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL MILTON BERLE LEE UNKRICH JEFFREY KLUGER MIKE MILLS IAN MCKELLEN If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many ... ADAM GILES MACAULAY CULKIN WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN We really try to get parents and children working together on this. We try to promote a responsibili... JANETTE HENRY It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they ... DONALD DRIVER They wanted someone there to talk to, someone who would listen to them. The other refugees - they ha... DANNY LEBLANC We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names o... ROD MCKUEN I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their pare... BETH MOORE OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I think there are a lot of parents concerned about these issues but don't have a venue to talk about... ANDY ZWEIZIG Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to... CODY LINLEY Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... a... JUDD GREGG For most kids, Jewish identity is dictated by their parents. They go to Hebrew school because their ... JODI SPERLING We hope that parents take those books home and read them to their kids. AGNES MATTOX Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's ... BRUCE FEILER IRWIN WINKLER ANTHONY JOSHUA The kids have grown up seeing us play together. I think that children naturally want to be with thei... DEBORAH CHARNESS NAOMI WOLF Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers. JOHN BOYNE RICHARD YATES Parents are clueless in handing that phone to their kids. The technology embedded on the latest phon... JACK SAMAD Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON BETHANY HAMILTON I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that ... MAGDA APANOWICZ MAURICE SENDAK EZEKIEL EMANUEL I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own ... JEWELL PARKER RHODES KATHERINE PATERSON It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don&... JAIME PRESSLY SUSAN CAIN One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They... CHRIS JORDAN This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it&#... JUDY DAVIS It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take... MITCH MCCONNELL RICHARD LOUV My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregn... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS ANNA QUINDLEN Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to b... B. D. WONG JAY ASHER VIGGO MORTENSEN MARVIN OLASKY My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigr... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ WALTER LIPPMANN I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want t... KEVIN MCKIDD DAV PILKEY Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality. DAN WEBSTER GOLDA MEIR TOM ROBBINS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES THOMAS FRIEDMAN CHRISTOPHER MOORE LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. Th... BEVERLY CLEARY A lot of them can't talk to their parents. ISABELLA KYMER CANDICE BERGEN An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in ord... LUKASZ LANIECKI STANA KATIC
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Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their childre... 
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how ... 
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to ... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing. 
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools ar... 
I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true ... 
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like... 
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a diss... 
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, pe... 
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their c... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their ... 
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. 
I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to... 
For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their ... 
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daugh... 
I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their p... 
In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Som... 
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'... 
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of fait... 
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of fait... 
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see the... 
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American ... 
I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I ... 
What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives ... 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wou... 
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no pa... 
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... 
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were po... 
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ... 
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but th... 
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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It... 
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These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying t... 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi... 
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Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling. 
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The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ... 
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Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll... 
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. 
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. 
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Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.... 
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who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became T... 
My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either. 
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. 
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