"What we don't want is a situation where parents are taking all the right steps at home, and then their kids undo all that work when they go to school with salty,fatty foods in the school cafeteria."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The study observed people in a shopping--in a parking lot of a supermarket and found that parents were a lot rougher to the kids if their kids are ugly than if their kids are good looking.

研究人员在一个超市的停车场里观察,并发现父母对丑小孩的态度,会比对漂亮小孩的态度更粗暴。

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And even we haven't an outreach program to teach parents how to be parents to their kids.

我们还没有任何一个项目教家长如何做家长。

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Of course,this is where they belong," "We're the parents and we've got other kids their size.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

and they're kids, they don't know how to be parents,

他们自己都是孩子呢，根本不知道怎么为人父母。

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Some of the Muslim parents took their kids out of the Islamic schools and put them in public schools because they were afraid of backlash."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

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"The very practice of dangling a toy or other premium to get kids to pester their parents to go into the restaurant and buy food,junky or nutritious, is unethical and,we believe,illegal."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"I think we're going to see a lot of those issues right now," "We're going to see parents not knowing where their kids are and kids not knowing where their parents are."

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"It just is not a good idea." Swine flu parties are the latest version of chickenpox parties, where parents encourage their kids to share lollipops, spoons or whistles to spread the disease and get immunity.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

He describes his reaction to the arrests. "Happy because I think the parents and the community took the right actions but sad because members of the Muslim community, kids that I might have crossed paths with at some time, got into that false ideology,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.20