11.   And any parent knows that kids, even if cable ready and distressingly worldly, are still kids.

12.   And as every parent knows, children are sometimes their own best interior designers.

13.   And both parents know that to this very day Damian has never been interviewed by the police.

14.   And as every parent knows, children all seem to have the ability to see right through adults no matter how cool their pose.

15.   And I doubt if my parents knew anyone whose lives had been affected by drug abuse.

16.   And many parents did not know what to think when the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission warned that sleeping with infants and toddlers can be dangerous.

17.   Any parent knows that boys and girls are different.

18.   As a teenager, she confided in them the secrets her parents could never know.

19.   Anyone remotely in touch with the real world knows that there are many teen-agers who feel they cannot under any circumstances let their parents know they are sexually active.

20.   As far as the parents know, the aid workers are still being held in the school, where they sleep on mattresses and eat three meals a day.