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Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored -- Triple H
Parental child abduction is child abuse. -- Chris Smith
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. -- Steve Maraboli
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others -- Eric Berne
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. -- Anna Freud
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. -- Hedy Lamarr
Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days. -- Ali Landry
We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me. -- Marisa Tomei
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. -- Julius Erving
I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought - Bette [Midler]. So we called her. -- Billy Crystal
It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source. -- James W. Hall
Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul. -- David Jeremiah
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless. -- Benjamin Spock
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. -- Iain Duncan Smith
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions... -- Pope Pius XII
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance. -- Sister Souljah
Of all things love is the most potent. -- Maria Montessori
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. -- Isadora Duncan
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. -- Oscar Wilde
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. -- Alice Miller
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. -- William Bartram
We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers. -- Donna Shalala
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. -- Abraham Lincoln
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence. -- Lewis Mumford
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. -- John Lone
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility. -- Ronald Reagan
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. -- Twyla Tharp
You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system. -- Susan Forward
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention. -- Riane Eisler
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives. -- Susan Forward
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. -- Jean Paul
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in. -- Marilyn Manson
To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things. -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women. -- Quentin Bryce
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. -- Bob Filner
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. -- Franz Boas
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. -- Jeff Buckley
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. -- Malcolm X
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting. -- Virginia Postrel
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another. -- James E. Faust
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not. -- Marianne Williamson
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. -- Diane Abbott
As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision. -- LZ Granderson
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration. -- Steven Pinker
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. -- Darell Hammond
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it. -- Clare Balding
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. -- Ingrid Newkirk
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life. -- Ayelet Waldman
You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'. -- Daryl Gregory
I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation. -- Alec Baldwin
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. -- Diane Cilento
Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth... -- Nathan Eldon Tanner
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. -- Frank Gehry
I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian. -- Denis Hayes
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage. -- Stephanie Coontz
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. -- Louis O. Kelso
People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens -- Masahisa Goi
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. -- Deb Caletti
The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers. -- Brigid Schulte
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. -- George Santayana
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Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It's the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. -- Timothy Keller
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom -- Franz Boas
Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. -- Brent L. Top
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key. -- Amy Chua
One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate. -- Nancy Mairs
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes. -- Grace Jones
The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. -- Diane Cilento
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society. -- Milton Friedman
Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems. -- Spencer W. Kimball
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Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I'll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing's housebroken? (Jericho) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs. -- John R. Leopold
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. -- Charles Darwin
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance. -- Amy Chua
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. -- Jill Lepore
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. -- Gloria Steinem
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. -- Zhang Xin
On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. -- Zhang Xi
If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them. -- Ivan Lendl
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline. -- Russell D. Moore
Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme. -- Tony Abbott
Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in. -- Jo Webber
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. -- Jane Austen
Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman. -- Sallie Krawcheck
Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover. -- Kenny Loggins
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path. -- Margaret Fuller
I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me. -- Warren Beatty
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. -- Nancy Gibbs
My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles. -- Arabella Weir
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. -- David Nicholls
It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme. -- Chris Bowen
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough. -- Robert Frost
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. -- Margot Fonteyn
That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures. -- Stella Chess
I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option. -- Maggie Stiefvater
In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do. -- Noreena Hertz
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family. -- Dennis Lehane
My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much. -- Kajol
I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong. -- Eric Bana
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing. -- Shawn Amos
My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much. -- Kajol
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. -- Augustus Y. Napier
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. -- Augustus Y. Napier
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. -- Anna Quindlen
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A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down. -- Ernst Mayr

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