Noun

parents

  1. Plural form of parent.; one's father and mother.

Synonyms

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Fri Jul 10 08:53:45 2009

A parent is a mother or father; one who sires or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different roles of parents vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human culture.

Father

Main article: Father

Like mothers, fathers may be categorised according to their biological, social or legal relationship with the child. Historically, the biological relationship paternity has been determinative of fatherhood. However, proof of paternity has been intrinsically problematic and so social rules often determined who would be regarded as a father e.g. the husband of the mother.

Biological parents and parental testing

The term biological parent refers to a parent who is the biological mother or father of an individual. While an individual's parents are often also their biological parents, it is seldom used unless there is an explicit difference between who acted as a parent for that individual and the person from whom they inherit half of their genes. For example, a person whose father has remarried may call his new wife their stepmother and continue to refer to their mother normally, though someone who has had little or no contact with their biological mother may address their foster parent as their mother, and their biological mother as such, or perhaps by her first name.

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Fri Jul 10 12:53:51 2009

How do you convince parents to not put so many limits to my internet access?
Q. My parents are being unfair. They have set everything to a password. Like Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, etc. They only let me check my e-mail account on weekends. My other friends' parents let them do whatever they want but they're smart. They're not stupid like my parents think we are. I know they're trying to protect us but I'm breaking more rules by sneaking behind their backs and going on the computer. Any articles or anything? I need solid proof.
Asked by chipmunkx928 - Fri May 1 16:42:19 2009 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Your parents are being responsible parents...it doesn't matter what your friends' parents let them do. They have every right to set passwords.
Answered by Mich1 - Fri May 1 16:51:09 2009

Parents How do you punish your children and is it different from how you where punished as a child?
Q. This only counts for parents who do that.
Asked by Princess - Thu Nov 20 06:43:44 2008 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I am old enough to remember being spanked. That was the way it was done back then. Nowadays its a different world with different views. It all depends on the age of your children, mine are 9 and 7 now. I use a four step program that's works for me. First I take away any video gaming. Still continues I take away the TV rights, third toys are taken away. And the last thing i take away are their books. Both mine love to read. I throw away toys when i take them away from them too, but normally they are the Mc D's toys broken ones, they haven't caught on to that one yet. I have also bought a lot of fun activity books for them to play with and when I get to four, books pulled, I sometime tear pages they have done in the activity books out and… [cont.]
Answered by ndsandman - Thu Nov 20 08:59:31 2008

How to convince my parents that animals are important too?
Q. Me and my friends planned to have a Bottle Drive to get bottles and cans, exchange them for money, and donate the money to our local shelter, so I asked my parents if I could do it. (By the way, my parents think "Animals can't think" so they don't want anything to to with animals) They both said that I could not be involved in that or anything to help animals. I'm desperate!! PLEASE help me convince them that they are an important part of my life too!! Thanks!
Asked by I <3 Gus!! - Mon Jul 6 17:44:14 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. the thing about parents is, they have their own set of morals and values and there is almost nothing we can do to change that. Something they did when raising you MUST have sparked this love for animals (i assume dogs right?? ME TOO!) When it comes to this specific situation, I don't really see a problem. You can have a can drive and donate the money all by yourself, you don't need their help. Maybe once they see how devoted you are (mature...) they will have more respect for your individuality. Also, they may like to see this same kind of initiative when it comes to your family. Maybe you could use a PORTION of the oney you raise, to help pay for your parents' gas, or help with the groceries, etc. Something like that would let them know… [cont.]
Answered by Lindsey N - Tue Jul 7 04:33:58 2009

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Tue Jul 14 19:52:40 2009

Parenting is the process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.

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  • Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage through their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humourously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake up in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
  • The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
  • Parenting is the science of art of upbringing children.

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