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He delivered sermons on the duties of parents to their children and children to their parents, the duties of the rich to the poor and the poor to the rich.
I was nervous because my parents had charged me with making sure that my sister and I played as safely and as quietly as possible.
And I saw my sister's face, this wail of pain and suffering and surprise threatening to erupt from her mouth and wake my parents from the long winter's nap for which they had settled.
And for those of you who are not parents, sippy cups are those little plastic things that your child graduates to after using bottles.
So it really makes you realize the onus on parents to have to look at this and regulate this and police this in their own lives and how astonishing that is.
However, if we parents are unaware, we are leaving our children to fend for themselves.
Now, I don't know how old all of you are, but when I was a kid, your parents took pictures with a special kind of camera that held something called "film."
But if you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through the parents, you see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was order of magnitude less diverse even than other shark species.
Our parents leave us too early, our spouse and our children come along too late.
Parents set up shop and begin stocking their shelves with inventory, the only limitation being sperm, egg and economics.
After we are born, we do whatever we can to attract the attention of our parents, determining what our strongest selling points are and marketing them ferociously.
Sometimes parents contaminate the deidentification process, communicating to their kids subtly or not, that only certain kinds of accomplishments will be applauded in the home.
Parents exacerbate this problem further when they exhibit favoritism, which they do overwhelmingly, no matter how much they admit it.
The remaining parents may simply be doing a better job of concealing things.
I like to say that 95 percent of all parents have a favorite, five percent are lying about it.
It's not parents' fault that they harbor feelings of favoritism.
Parents typically get two years of investing dollars, calories and so many other resources in them, so that by the time the second born comes along, the firstborn is already ... it's what corporations call "sunk costs," you don't want to disinvest in this one and launch the R&D on the new product.
Long before scientists began looking at this, parents noticed that there are certain temperamental templates associated with all birth rankings: the serious, striving firstborn; the caught-in-a-thicket's middle born; the wild child of a last born.
In a family with two parents and two kids, there are six dyads: Mom has a relationship with child A and B, Dad has a relationship with child A and B. There's the marital relationship, and there is the relationship between the kids themselves.
Her parents were born in slavery in Virginia in the 1840's.
As parents, you're always learning who your children are.
I don't know if my parents really believe that, but I didn't want to prove them wrong.
It was a way that parents could figure out which were the right public schools for their kids.
How in Sandra's family, widespread hunger and poverty existed as recently as Sandra's parents' generation and therefore impacts Sandra today.
Soon, my parents moved to the United States, but like Claire, they don't talk about our past.
And so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children.
About three months ago, I was in a sporting goods store buying goggles and shin guards and all the things that parents buy at the sporting goods store.
At this point, parents are, like, pulling their children close.
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch, drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon, they think we are looking back at them, which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait like parents for us to close our eyes.
Dirt poor, living in the home with my parents, I couldn't afford to.
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