People tend to teach the way in which they were taught, and tend to parent how they were parented, which is probably part of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

On top of that he was being "parented" by my parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

Children often minimally parented; are independent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comparing cultural differences: Mexico with Canada and the United States] Reference

Did you feel that the community parented you at all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001. Interview K-0554. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

We weren ` t in the house, we don ` t know how he parented.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009] Reference

RC: We've maintained a civility and co-parented some girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Rodney Crowell: 'Until a Man's 38, He's Clueless Why He's in Love'] Reference

Or, as George Lakoff would say, have I nurturantly parented?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Could there be more than one Philocrites?] Reference

Prime practically step-parented the latchkey kids of the mid-'80s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay] Reference

I am actually re-parenting myself because my mom over-parented me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tune In] Reference

Generally, they were over-parented, over-praised and overstimulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine Hassler: Inspiration From Generation-Y] Reference

Neighbors say they were together about a year and parented well together.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2004] Reference

I should mention that I was parented by notorious Beatles un-enthusiasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 14, 2007] Reference

And then came a shift from parents being groovy to kids being over-parented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Generation Y: In Hard Times, Who Wants Slacker Employees? Management Guru Bruce Tulgan Says: We Do -- If We Guide Them] Reference

They ` re being parented by producers and celebrity parents, not real parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2009] Reference

They get to be parented by the parent who is clearly better equipped to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2008] Reference

Can you imagine a mother and father who parented exactly the same all the time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [» When Parents Have Different Styles Strocel.com] Reference

KING: Teenage girl, growing up in Kansas, well parented, read stories like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007] Reference

Creature's physical reality, the Creature is left to be parented largely by books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality] Reference

That's pretty much my parenting philosophy: she'll show me how she needs to be parented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geekmom] Reference

As well as being poorly parented, these children are disrespectful, lazy and badly behaved.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up] Reference

The baby didn't complain, as if it were accustomed to being parented by many different adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

I'm interested in hearing different ways in which these types of situations are parented through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Gender and Our Kids.] Reference

She had survived and really had parented, in a lot of ways, this family after her father ` s death.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2008] Reference

On a fundamental level, deep in the folds of our brain, we learn to parent as we are being parented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julianne Idleman: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': The Challenge of Early Attachment] Reference

In the beginning, we each parented the way that we were raised and we immediately butted heads on many issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 12, 2002] Reference

Studies thus far find between 8% and 21% of homosexually parented children ultimately identify as non-heterosexual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Huckabee Compares Gays To Drug Users, Says They’re Unfit To Adopt Kids Because ‘Children Are Not Puppies’] Reference

We parent our children in ways that we would have liked to have been parented and in so doing we reparent ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: Dr. Mona Answers: When Parents Reparent] Reference

The Old Navy card I opened to buy school clothes for the kids was (quelle surprise!) also parented by G.E. Money Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legalized Loan Sharking: The Sleeper Issue of 2008] Reference

But she used to say that you spend so much time as a psychoanalyst talking about parenting and how people are parented.    From Wordnik.com.  ['In Treatment' Writers Analyze The HBO Drama] Reference

An anti-abortion activist was shot and killed outside a Michigan high school, as students and parented watched in horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2009] Reference

The fact is, most of us weren't parented thoughtfully, and even if we were, society paints parenting as a brainless occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Those Brain-Dead Parents.] Reference

I am fully confident that even if I swaddle Baby until she is eighteen I will not have parented as excessively as these people.    From Wordnik.com.  [A swaddle blog! Now with new footnote action! | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Your desperate “little child” tantrum and “acting out” is classic pathology for a “man child” that was parented by losers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Tea Party Blogger Hints That Pelosi’s Life Is In Danger, Warns Of ‘A Thousand Little Waco’s’] Reference

She has parented my daughter almost as much as I have; she is one of the reasons my long months with J out of town have been bearable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Kane: The Lucky One: I'm Pregnant But My Best Friend Miscarried] Reference