The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest....
For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different va...
A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions o...
My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
My parents were two-faced. To me, they showed no mercy. They preached from theBook of Fallen Children - Commandment 1: The Child Is Always Ungrateful. At eighteen, the free ride would stop, and I'd be...
Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.Happy Father's Day!
I could say it all began with my mother.
I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mou...
It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to h...
It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that wa...
If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.
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