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Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back. -- Robert Winston
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn. -- Rodney Atkins
I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones. -- Tate Donovan
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults. -- Annabeth Gish
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. -- Alison Gopnik
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. -- Steven Spielberg
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'? -- Jef I. Richards
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical. -- Alison Gopnik
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
Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings. -- Anne-Marie Duff
I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes! -- Constance Marie
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
My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun. -- Jane Krakowski
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves. -- Paul Bloom
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. -- Nancy Gibbs
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. -- Lynn Johnston
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. -- Roger Federer
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. -- Rodney Atkins
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman. -- Lady Gregory
The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways. -- Alison Gopnik
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with. -- Marion Cotillard
You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents. -- Dr. Linda Barboa
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. -- Bill Gates
I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato -- Will Ferrell
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap. -- Amit Kalantri
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. -- Harry Caray
I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do! -- Lisa Lampanelli
For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places. -- Carolyn Hax
Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles. -- Nicholas Day
And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say. -- Ken Wilber

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