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• There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

  Rossana Condoleo

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• When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• You can become very serious as a parent. That’s got to be fought against.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.

  Sam Harris

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• I always thought I’d make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

  Neil Patrick Harris

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• My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  Rafael Nadal

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• Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

  Gene Hackman

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• Now that I have kids, I’m probably more overprotective than I’ve ever been. My wife’s nickname for me is ‘red alert.’ I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

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• I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

  Danny Strong

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• I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I’d adopt.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

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• My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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• A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

  Michael Sheen

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• Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

  Adam Sandler

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• There are certain things you learn to do as a parent – using every single part of your body because you’re multitasking all the time. You’re holding the baby and you’re closing the door with your left foot.

  Amy Ryan

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• Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

  Rob Mariano

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• And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

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• What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

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• I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

  Emily VanCamp

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• Does any new parent, even if you’re not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

  Robert John Downey Jr.

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• It is always fragile, being a parent.

  Renee Fleming

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