My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
My dad was very rough with us.
It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.
The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.
My parents were very indiscrete.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
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.
My parents were not theatrical at all.
I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?
My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?
My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.
