speak as a parent

He lowered his voice and looked into her eyes, speaking as a parent to a child.

Speaking as a parent, union power is not by any means the only problem - there's a simple question about supply and demand.

I support strike action - and I speak as a parent who'll be very inconvenienced by the closure of my daughter's school.

Schools need more money, less interference, but more importantly parents need to understand how important and influential their attitude towards school is (I speak as a parent myself).

I felt that I lost the ability to speak as a parent, because I was always speaking as the P.T.A. president.

The senator spoke of her choice to attend Yale Law and also spoke as a parent, noting that her daughter, Chelsea, would graduate from Stanford in four weeks.

I also think - and here I'm speaking as a parent rather than on the basis of research - that the time right before bed is important to provide the emotional support that the child needs.

I speak as a parent, and as a Survivor of long term institutional abuse, of a dysfunctionally damaged family, set in an intergenerational pattern of post trauma coping behaviour patterns.

"I don't think there are black, white or Hispanic views on potholes," Ms. Sismanidis added, speaking as a parent advocate at the Oyster public school, a respected bilingual institution that, as a magnet school, is more integrated than schools in the poorest black wards.