When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility. Votes: 2
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents. Votes: 2
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility. Votes: 2
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important. Votes: 2
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. Votes: 2
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. Votes: 2
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults. Votes: 2
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves. Votes: 2
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Votes: 2
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. Votes: 2
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year. Votes: 2
Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby. Votes: 2
Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go; otherwise, a child would feed themselves with their feet without the correct guidance. Votes: 2
My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.' Votes: 2
Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me. Votes: 2
The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families. Votes: 2
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility. Votes: 2
I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids. Votes: 2
I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem. Votes: 2
I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. Votes: 1
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it. Votes: 0
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. Votes: 0
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. Votes: 0
When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. Votes: 0
I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. Votes: 0
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age. Votes: 0
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. Votes: 0
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children. Votes: 0
Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well. Votes: 0
Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society? Votes: 0
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults Votes: 0
I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down. Votes: 0
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid. Votes: 0
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.
Parents just don't understand. Votes: 4 DJ Jazzy Jeff
Responsibility is good for your soul Votes: 4 Judah Smith