Quotes About Poor Parenting

#1. I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Mary J. Blige

#2. The symptoms of executive skills problems are generic enough that it is sometimes hard for people to see them as other than just bad behavior or signs of poor parenting.

Joyce Cooper-Kahn

#3. Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.

Thomm Quackenbush

#4. The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

Martha Hall Foose

#5. I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

M. Scott Peck

#6. But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy

A.W. Tozer

#7. One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

Frankie Valli

#8. The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Elliott Abrams

#9. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

#10. Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he'd never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.
Fuck him.

Kristen Ashley

#11. Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Paulo Coelho

#12. You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

Sylvia Plath

#13. Multicultural teams need low-context processes.

Erin Meyer

#14. Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth".

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

Richelle Mead

#16. It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

Nick Frost

#19. Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions.

Hannibal

#20. Her niece had the parenting skills of a ... Rose didn't even know how to finish that sentence. Any creature in nature so incapable of caring for its young would have died out centuries ago.

Kelley Armstrong

#21. The food which I get by begging is divine." After I had thought over what she said, I understood her meaning. When we get our food precariously as alms, we remember God the giver. But when we receive our food regularly at home, as a matter of course, we are apt to regard it as ours by right.

Rabindranath Tagore

#22. My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.

Martin Jacques

#23. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

Jeff Benedict

#24. Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

Rachel Johnson

#25. Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

Robin Morgan