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But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
Three years later, when I fell in love with a man, neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
And I see their parents and their fathers who, like my own, advocate for them, despite and even in the face of daunting opposition.
But when I am back in Afghanistan, when I see the students in my school and their parents who advocate for them, who encourage them, I see a promising future and lasting change.
But, you know, parents and teachers and policymakers in Luxembourg all like small classes.
If you go to Japan in Asia, or Finland in Europe, parents and teachers in those countries expect every student to succeed, and you can see that actually mirrored in student behavior.
Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute asked 1,000 children, "If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?"
The parents predicted the kids would say, spending more time with them.
That their parents be less tired and less stressed.
Like a lot of parents, our kids are something like Bermuda Triangles.
That assumes, as parents, we can anticipate every problem that's going to arise.
Parents can learn a lot from that.
We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts.
We've got to hook them up with parents.
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around.
Again, research shows that parents should spend less time worrying about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, worry less about the bad times and build up the good times.
Do you know where your parents went to high school?
At the same time, we also had lots of parents, rich people, who had computers, and who used to tell me, "You know, my son, I think he's gifted, because he does wonderful things with computers.
That's why we need care from our parents.
You spend more time with your parents.
And that's very characteristic of humans and it's called childhood, which is this extended dependence of human children on their family or parents.
When I was nine, I saw the movie "Jaws," and thought to myself, "No, thank you." (Laughter) And when I was 10, I was told that my parents left because they didn't want me.
He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, not because his parents opted for a different destiny.
It does raise the question of, they're not going to have passenger pigeon parents to teach them how to be a passenger pigeon.
We'll get help from Bob Lanza and Mike McGrew to get that into germ plasm that can go into chickens that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years.
Because if high-income kids get in trouble, the parents will send them to a private school or they move neighborhoods.
His parents, Scott Berns and Leslie Gordon, both physicians, are here with us this morning as well.
If you think about the issues our parents tried to solve in the 20th century, issues like racism, or sexism, or the issue that we've been fighting in this century, homophobia, those are hard issues.
They were just like your kids, and you played with them for a few hours, and when you were about to leave, the parents said, "Hey, by the way, just before you leave, if you're interested, they're for sale."
I remember being able to play Trivial Pursuit against my parents back in the '80s and holding my own, back when that was a fad.
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