Definition of Parental

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Definition of Parental
	Parental Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations. Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. Related Definitions: Affectionate, As, Authority, Becoming, Care, Characteristic, Devoted, Of, Or, Parent, Parental, Pertaining, Tender, To

Parental Quotations

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
Julius Erving

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
Diane Cilento

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
Kenny Loggins

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
John Lone

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
Diane Cilento

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Franz Boas

Parental Translations

parental in German is elterlich
parental in Spanish is paternal

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