Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction. Votes: 4
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids. Votes: 3
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. Votes: 2
My parents were determined to move into the middle class. Votes: 2
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. Votes: 2
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. Votes: 2
I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself. Votes: 2
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. Votes: 2
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. Votes: 2
My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. Votes: 2
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. Votes: 2
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with. Votes: 2
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. Votes: 2
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs. Votes: 2
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. Votes: 2
As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. Votes: 2
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis! Votes: 2
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. Votes: 2
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers. Votes: 2
My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded. Votes: 2
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. Votes: 2
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? Votes: 3 Walker Percy
Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child. Votes: 5 Edmond Mbiaka