Sometimes you need to look at a few bad parenting quotes to put your own family life in perspective. Whether you need something light-hearted, or deep, something about being over-protective or not there at all – these bad parenting quotes will help you shift gears.
Bad Parenting Quotes That Make You Think
- Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. – Adam Sandler
- It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- There are no illegitimate children – only illegitimate parents. Leon R. Yankwich
- Here’s a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent. Daniel Tosh
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. Ann Douglas
- Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them NO? Brenda M. McGraw
- It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. Spike Lee
- Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. Haim G. Ginott
Bad Parenting Quotes On Making an Effort
- Good parenting gives headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches. Shiv Khera
- Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. Kittie Frantz
- Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents. Agona Apell
- I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting. – Barbara Bush
- If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Bad Parenting Quotes On Not Being There
- No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. – Jeannette Walls
- In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well. Paul Young
- If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren
- Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson
- Parents are the centre of a person’s solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void. Justin Trudeau
- Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time…If you want to connect with your kids, you’ve got to be available consistently, not randomly. Andy Stanley
- When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. Robert Bly
Bad Parenting Quotes On Being Self-Absorbed
- Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. – Rosalind Wiseman
- Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody? – Catherine Lacey
- Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. – Russell Baker
- It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. – Anne Lamott
- In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser. – Christina Enevoldsen
- 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. – Dr Marita Sirota
- Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. – George Will
Bad Parenting Quotes On Leaving Lasting Scars
- Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children. – Tim Kimmel
- Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children. – David W. Earle
- 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. – Shannon Thomas.
- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. – John Locke
- 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. – Lisa Bedrick
- Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t. – Mignon McLaughlin
- No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. – Frank Pittman
Bad Parenting Quotes On Children Not Feeling Seen
- My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it’s not bad. – Zoey Deutch
- People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them. – Joe Newman
- Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. – Bill Ayers
Bad Parenting Quotes On Over-Catering
- Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. – Thomas Szasz
- Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. – Elbert Hubbard
- It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life. – Nicholas Sparks
- Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. – Robert A. Heinlein
- Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life. – Barbara R. Duguid
- The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life. – Heather Choate Davis
- We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world’s evils, only to find we’ve raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity! – Samuel R. Delany
Bad Parenting Quotes – Final Thoughts
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