On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
I, for certain, don't mind my son doing music.
My parents saw certain things differently than other people.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
My view of the world changed completely when I became a mom. I'm suddenly like, 'Do pop songs always say things like this? How could they put that on the radio?'
Politics wasn't actively discussed in my household. I only knew that my parents had always supported the opposition.
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
I don't think one should incentivise the losing of teeth. I find the idea of a child getting an iPad, or a £20 note, for losing a tooth, utterly abhorrent. Fifty pence, or a pound at most, is what my children can expect from the Tooth Fairy.
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.'
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
