Parental Validation Quotes

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

If you want to stand with me as a single mom - and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do - please don't appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.

No matter how old you are, you always want your parents' approval.

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

Jughead is one of those characters that takes the opinions of his father really seriously and probably seeks a bit of validation from him.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I was just trying to get that validation from my dad. It got so bad I remember my high school coach telling him not to show up to games.