Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
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