“From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.”
Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
As quoted in The Ultimate Guide to Celebrating Kids : K-6th Grade School (2005) by Linda LaTourelle, p. 134
“From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.”
Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress
Discussing the pressure to be thin. Quoted by Hollie McKay for Fox News, 30 September 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557721,00.html.
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
My Mother’s House, "The Priest on the Wall" (1922)
Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Context: A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.
“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 126.
“It's not a problem to put it up, It's a problem to take it down.”
Rafic Hariri (1944–2005) Lebanese businessman and politician
Talking about the posters that appeared everywhere in Lebanon, of Hafez al-Assad, 1993. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/international/middleeast/15hariri.html?_r=0
Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex
http://books.google.com/books?id=YnY10fNqqp4C&q=%22There+is+some+irony+in+the+fact+that+children+imagine+that+parents+can+do+what+they+want+and+parents+imagine+that+children+do+When+I+grow+up+parallels+Oh+to+be+a+child+again%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)