Parent Guilt Quotes

#1. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

LZ Granderson

#2. I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Phil McGraw

#3. With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Heather Locklear

#4. We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.

Christopher Moore

#5. If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

Stormie O'martian

#6. When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

Erma Bombeck

#7. Children who use more shame self-talk (I am bad) versus guilt self-talk (I did something bad) struggle mightily with issues of self-worth and self-loathing. Using shame to parent teaches children that they are not inherently worthy of love.

Brene Brown

#8. For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

Alix Kates Shulman

#9. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

Amanda Donohoe

#10. Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Margaret Kennedy