Not just our parents, but our neighbors and our communities and our houses of worship and our VFW halls. (Applause.) Each of us is here because we had a country that was willing to invest in things like community colleges and universities, and scientific research and medicine, and caring for our veterans.
We must not fear insulting our parents by asking them about what we observe.
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That is our obligation, not just as parents who love our kids but as citizens who love this country.
We seem to have chosen to call our parents not what toddlers call them, but what adolescents call them.
But now something external had transformed the meaning of these drawings, making them into what they were not, and so he'd told our parents that he'd destroyed them, making himself into what he was not.
We parents and our Marines not only were of many races but also were representative of many economic classes.
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And part of our job as parents -- Michelle and my job -- is not just to tell our kids what to do, but to start instilling in them a sense that they want to do it for themselves.
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Our kids are not benefiting from having two parents working outside the home.
The apparel industry employs plenty of Americans, just not in the cutting and sewing operations that our parents and grandparents endured, working long hours for low wages.
But that is why it is so important for us to make sure that we are meeting our commitments to them not just individually as parents but also as a society.
We can help our aging parents see what they may not be able to see for themselves.
But it's not the sole responsibility of teachers and parents to prepare our leaders of tomorrow.
All of us have a responsibility, not just as parents, but as citizens, for giving our kids the best possible education.
"To the best of our knowledge, he has not even been informed that his parents have retained lawyers who are working on his behalf, " Harris said.
For our aging parents on fixed incomes, expensive medications are not in the budget.
We can do internet research for our aging parents whether they can use the internet or not.
During the fifties, when my brother and I started chasing butterflies, potassium cyanide was still in use as well, but because it is a deadly poison, Professor Klots recommended liquid carbon tetrachloride, which is "not very poisonous unless inhaled deeply, " and which we persuaded our parents was as innocuous as smelling salts.
Fourth and most importantly, leadership relies on values and attitudes and we get our values and attitudes primarily from peers not teachers, courses, and parents.
"Caregiving for a parent can bring up a lot of emotion -- parents know how to push our buttons and that does not stop with dementia, " Morhardt said.
As our parents age, especially with memory loss problems, they may not realize how difficult their demands can be.
Well, part of it is, is that we as parents are not insisting and demanding on the kind of higher performance from our kids.
The model we in the West grew up with - and our great-grandfather's parents grew up with too - turns out not to be immutable.
But that can hardly be the dominant downer, particularly since our armed forces are entirely volunteer-based, and therefore parents and their offspring do not have conscription hanging over their heads.
He wrote: If I die one day, my brother, please shoulder the responsibility to take care of our parents.... If I die one day, my wife, please do not grieve.
It used to be that we had a lot of Republican sponsors for the DREAM Act, which would allow young people who have grown up here as Americans and did not break laws themselves but rather were brought here by their parents, they should be studying, serving our military, contributing to our society, starting businesses.
What we're making clear to parents - and all other readers - on our database and in our stories is this is not the sole measure of a teacher.
But we also know that each of us has a responsibility not just as parents, but as civic leaders, as Americans, to do a better job of educating our children.
In our view, parents ought to decide how many children to bring into the world and when not the state, or a church, or pushy grandparents.
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