Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.