Maybe what is bad is having to apologize to corporate America for even being a parent.
It's easier to be a reporter than face the terror of being a parent.
Or maybe being a parent of a young girl has just made me soft.
You're being a parent, and monitoring your kid, making sure they don't do anything dumb.
Yes, the responsibilities of being a parent typically fall more heavily on the woman in a relationship.
Being a parent is an endless gauntlet of emotions and worry and joy.
Part of being a parent is letting go and hoping for the best.
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So instead of being a parent and telling her child, "no, " Parham decided to become a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Being a parent is positioned as the most important thing a person can do but is given little social or political support.
In short, being a parent doesn't make you an expert in parenting.
Of the parents, all but one were happy with the technique, the one exception being a parent who objected to the colour of the crown.
I'm no different from anybody else in that respect and I look at it from the perspective of being a parent and you worry about that.
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Then what is the point of even being a parent.
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This lady can take a bullet, dodge smoke monsters, sleep on the ground and manage competing male egos (think Jack and Sawyer), but gets passed over for being a parent?
Whether you're a military dad returning from deployment or a father doing his best to make ends meet for his family in a tough economy, being a parent isn't easy.
Results from a survey performed last year by the University of Nebraska indicate that 75 percent of men consider being a parent very important, while only 48 percent had the same opinion about having a successful career.
"I think they figure that their friends are watching but we're not, because they think we are old and decrepit and we barely know how to turn the computer on, " says Dr. Rivera, 54-years-old, of being a parent.
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He knows how to make his message personal, empathetic and powerfully uplifting all at once, quoting choice bits of scripture to maximum effect and personalizing heartbreak by expressing his own feelings and the universal emotions of being a parent.
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The most perplexing aspect of being a parent is that you can (almost) never discern when or why a child will follow your directives, as opposed to hear what you direct him to do and then do the exact opposite.
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Ms. LINDA REEDY (Gay Parent): It's as if a whole segment of the population of the country and maybe the world are telling me personally that I'm not fit to be a parent, when I know that every day, my whole life is about being a parent.
Matching the irony that parents see in their own struggles, scientific studies have arrived at mixed results, with some reporting that parents are happier than their non-parent counterparts, while others hint at the fact that being a parent may actually take a serious toll on your mental health.
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In a particularly cringe-inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).
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Really, how could being a chess parent be harder for me than being a chess player is on my son?
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In fact, right now I work for a CEO, Brock Blake, who believes that being a successful parent actually makes him a better CEO.
It means she loves candy, and I was being a lazy parent at the time.
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Your attempt at being a good parent is being sabotaged - and I am using that word deliberately.
Conservative spokesperson Liz Smith said there is "no greater responsibility for the state" than being a corporate parent.
It focuses on the kinds of stresses that military families face: relocation, deployment, separation and being a single parent.
Spending years feeling you have to apologize for being a responsible parent can cause women to lose all sense of the value of their own contributions.
Having left college without completing my degree, my AmeriCorps education award made it possible to complete my studies while managing the responsibilities of being a single parent.
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