Pastoral Resources

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.