Famous quotes containing the words parent and/or families:
“Its funny how you never meet a parent who rushes his child. Thats what other parents do. All we are doing is reacting to our childs natural ability.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlementa sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”
—David Elkind (20th century)