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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

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.

I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.