I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
A woman’s experience as a mother makes her uniquely qualified to govern.
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.
Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
When I told my father about Samantha, he simply laughed and said that he is happy and that he already knew about our love story.
Often parents know what's best for their kids without having to learn from others.
A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.
I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.
