Pastoral Resources

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?