From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.
One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
Having a child is difficult enough already, bringing with it a whole range of wonderful challenges, and we shouldn't be trying to guilt parents into 'there is just one way to do it'.
There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.
Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.
The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.
Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.
I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.
