I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I couldn't ask for better parents. I keep that at the forefront of whatever I do, and every time I feel like I can't take another step, I see their faces, and that drives me.
We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.
This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.