1. “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.”
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2. “Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
3. “Arguing with your child is like arguing with a drunk. It’s not going anywhere. You just end up with a headache.”
4. “All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.”
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5. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. We all mess up, and we figure it out. We are bad parents one day or bad friends the other. And that’s okay.”
6. “Parenting is a lot like the bar scene; everyone is yelling, you have no idea what?s going on, and you?re pretty sure you?re screwing everything up.”
7. “The road to bad parenting is paved with good intentions. The key is to stay off that road.”
8. “If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture”
9. “Raising children is like making biscuits, it’s as easy as one two, and a lot of hard work.”
10. “When you’re three or seven years old, it’s less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you’re living with a monster.”
11. “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
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12. “Good parenting doesn’t mean giving your kid everything they want. It means teaching them everything they need.”
13. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
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14. “A parent’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
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15. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
16. “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
17. “A narcissist parent is easily frustrated by a healthy, independent child that they can’t control through parental emotional manipulation.”
18. “A person can’t pick up the children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they want them to be.”
19. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”
20. “Bad parenting is the root of all evil.”
21. “Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
22. “The selfishness of the parents is to blame. Pay attention to your kids’ lives and get involved. Your only hope and your legacy are them.”
23. “There’s no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.”
24. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
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25. “The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally.”
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26. “Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and personal responsibility.”
27. “Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?”
28. “Control leaves no room for trust.”
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29. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
30. “You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.”
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31. “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
32. “The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.”
33. “The hateful and stinging words of a narcissistic parent can linger in the mind of an adult child long after the adult has left home.”
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34. “The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
35. “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.”
36. “Dysfunctional parents let their children know how burdened they have been by their children and how many sacrifices they had to make in order to raise them.”
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37. “The greatest gift you can give your child is your time.”
38. “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”
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39. “Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”
40. “I may seem quiet and reserved, but if you mess with my children, I will break out a level of crazy that will make your nightmares seem like a happy place.”
41. “The greatest gift you can give your children is the example of your own happiness.”
42. “It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”
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43. “The worst thing to do is to give in to a child’s every whim. Without structure, they’ll be lost.”
44. “Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.”
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45. “You don’t have to leave your whole family in the past, just those who don’t deserve a place in your future.”
46. “You are allowed to outgrow people who do not appreciate your growth.”
47. “Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything?s broken, and there?s a lot of throwing up.”
48. “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.”
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49. “Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.”
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50. “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
51. “Parents who don’t take the time to teach their children good manners have no one to blame but themselves.”
52. “Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.”
53. “Having kids doesn’t make you a parent any more than having a camera makes you a photographer.”
54. “Parents who overindulge their children and refuse to discipline them are not showing love but are actually being neglectful.”
55. “I was worthy of her love whether she gave it to me or not. Every child is worthy of love.”
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56. “Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.”
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57. “I learned a long time ago that it’s not our fault if our parents are monsters. We can’t take responsibility for that, or we’re twice damaged. All we can do is try to go forward in a different way.”
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58. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
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59. “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.”
60. “It doesn’t matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.”
61. “They ought to accept you for who you are. Parents ought to adore their children, right? You’d assume so.”
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62. “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they are finished, I climb out.”
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63. “The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”
64. “To all you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.”
65. “If mental abuse was a punishable crime, a lot of parents would be in jail serving a long term.”
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66. “No, we don’t control who our parents are. We don’t control what color we are. We don’t control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment.”
67. “It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
68. “All of us develop our expectations about how people will treat us based on our relationships with our parents.”
69. “Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.”
70. “The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.”
71. “Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.”
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72. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.”
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73. “Fighting became a way of life and seemed perfectly normal for your family.”
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74. “Good parenting means investing in your child’s future, with time, love, and discipline.”
75. “If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.”
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76. “Parenting is a lot like the bar scene; everyone’s shouting, everything’s sticky, it’s the same music over and over again, and occasionally there’s puking.”
77. “Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.”
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78. “Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”
79. “You must let go of the responsibility for the painful events of your childhood and put it where it belongs.”
80. “Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.”
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81. “A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they’ve trusted take responsibility, and that is what’s toxic.”
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82. “Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
83. “Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.”
84. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”
85. “There’s really no point in having children if you’re not going to be home enough to father them.”
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86. “Don?t let your kids become an echo of your past; be a model for their future.”
87. “Fear-based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.”
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88. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you”
89. “Children are not born for the benefit of their parents, neither are they the property of their family. Children belong to the future.”
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90. “Children are like a tube of toothpaste. They are easy to squeeze, but impossible to put back in.”
91. “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”
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92. “Your child needs your presence more than your perfection.”
