Parenting Flaws Quotes

I am definitely not the best wife, and no one has nominated me for 'Mother of the Year.'

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

I don't think there's any doubt, I love my kids. But I'm certainly not perfect, not even close. But I try to be a good dad.

My mother wasn't any better than my father.

My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

We are the buffoons of our children.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.