I want to keep my parent pages linked on the left sidebar but I can't figure out how to remove the children pages from showing. Help!

what version of aAtahualpa, WP and PHP?
What is the url?
Are you using a widget? If so which one?

Wow, I literally figured it out while responding to your questions. I'm using the Pages Widget and, in all my frustration, completely missed the 'exclude' option!! Thanks!