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And to my parents, me doing something as simple as having a sleeveless top right now, showing my shoulders, that makes me unworthy.
And to my parents, they cannot understand why something as simple as fashion or women's rights would prevent me from seeing my brother again.
And so my parents and I have been walking this tightrope, explaining our sides, respecting one another, but actually invalidating each other's very basic beliefs by the way we live our lives, and it's been difficult.
Ever since you were young, your parents taught you the importance of waiting in line and taking your turn.
"That stupid jerk, didn't his parents teach him anything?
This guy's parents give him up for adoption.
At age 13, his parents were relocated to the countryside, the schools were closed and he was left alone in Beijing to fend for himself until 16, when he got a job in a clothing factory.
Not one more fragile infant should have to go directly from the incubator to day care because his parents have used up all of their meager time sitting in the NICU.
These days scientists know how you inherit characteristics from your parents.
They're able to calculate probabilities of having a specific trait or getting a genetic disease according to the information from the parents and the family history.
I've been trying to help corals become parents for over 10 years now.
But I've also seen how difficult it is for them to become parents.
While there is nothing inherently wrong with a janitorial position, and in fact my forefathers and foremothers were able to attend college because many of their parents worked these jobs, it was a clear attempt to put me in my place.
And your love for your partner may be in its own dynamic relationship, healthy or totally weird, with the love of your parents and siblings.
We went to their homes and we interviewed their parents.
To your grandparents, parents, or even older siblings, this idea would have sounded strange.
When Scoville informed another expert, Wilder Penfield, of the results, he sent a Ph.D student named Brenda Milner to study H.M. at his parents' home, where he now spent his days doing odd chores, and watching classic movies for the first time, over and over.
But the chances of being right or left-handed are determined by the handedness of your parents in surprisingly consistent ratios.
It's the parents who do.
It's us parents who feel like computer science is this esoteric, weird science discipline that only belongs to the mystery makers.
But I tell them, "Don't worry, your parents don't know the right answer, either.
We went to India to give a talk, and our parents took us to visit the former private house of Mahatma Gandhi.
Yes, by the end of the tour, when we met our parents again, we both made a decision and said, "We're going on a hunger strike!" (Laughter) MW: And you can probably imagine their faces.
It took a lot of convincing, and not only to our parents but to our friends and to our teachers as well.
For example, sending children to school, parents could earn money for that, or getting their children inoculated or immunized, parents could get paid for doing that.
I didn't just passively accept the faith of my parents.
Her parents are proud that their daughter's been chosen.
So as a child, my parents used to drag me to these family events.
And in point of fact, I took a route that was not exactly what my parents had in mind.
And you know, my parents never complained.
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