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Parents simply refused to send them.
What if the parents' boycott was part of a larger strategy to identify and cut off the resources that ISIS needs to function; the skilled labor needed to produce food; the engineers needed to extract and refine oil; the media infrastructure and communications networks and transportation systems, and the local businesses that ISIS relies on?
And yet, 40 percent of the parents today are choosing to pull their children out of public schools and pay out of their pockets to put them in private schools.
If it was for me, my parents would say I'm not around.
By the time Yahli goes to college, the jobs her parents do are going to look dramatically different.
And, as you can imagine, if you can picture this: I was born in a very small village in Mexico, in, unfortunately, very poor surroundings, and my parents did not have a college education.
That kind of tells you a little bit of an idea of the emphasis that my parents placed on education.
My parents were fanatics about learning, and I'll come back to that a little bit later.
Well, one of the things that is really critical to try to distill from that experience is that in addition to that, people ask me and say, "Well, how did your parents treat you when you were a child?"
And not tough in the sense that most people think of, where your parents yell at you or hit you or whatever.
I pushed it home, and in my parents' guest room closet, I turned it into a spaceship.
I was distracted innovating immortality, even as many of you began to live shorter lives than your parents had.
As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being.
It's the first time their parents, friends and siblings can see them play.
I wanted to reassure myself that the falling bombs missed my parents' home.
The fact that he lives a five-minute drive from my parents' home made it easier to follow him through the years.
In fact, for the first time in American history, the majority of parents do not think that their kids will be better off than they were.
So my dad grew up answering the door for debt collectors and pretending his parents weren't home.
My parents made sure that I grew up on a kind of steady ground that allows one to question and risk and leap.
And so I get this question all the time from parents, and they ask me, "Would you let your own child play football?"
I guess what I'm saying is, we spend a lot of time being very concerned about parents who aren't involved enough in the lives of their kids and their education or their upbringing, and rightly so.
But at the other end of the spectrum, there's a lot of harm going on there as well, where parents feel a kid can't be successful unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn and hovering over every happening, and micromanaging every moment, and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers.
We expect our kids to perform at a level of perfection we were never asked to perform at ourselves, and so because so much is required, we think, well then, of course we parents have to argue with every teacher and principal and coach and referee and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary.
Well, we parents, we parents are pretty sure it's all worth it.
Not one's parents' actions on one's behalf, but when one's own actions lead to outcomes.
Eventually her parents realized how serious she was, and provided her with tutors.
As her father aged, Anna and her husband helped her parents with their imperial duties.
Spanning the late 11th and early 12th centuries of Byzantine history, the Alexiad recounts the tumultuous events of Alexios’s reign, and Anna’s own reactions to those events, like bursting into tears at the thought of the deaths of her parents and husband.
They're more likely to do drugs, more likely to go to jail, more likely to drop out of high school, and most importantly, they're more likely to do to their children what their parents did to them.
They made sure that when my parents weren't able to do the things that kids need, they stepped in and filled that role.
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