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Irresponsible Parenting Quotes

Here are some of the best irresponsible parenting quotes to help motivate parents to start improving one of the most important things they will ever do in their lives. Whether you are a irresponsible Father or irresponsible Mother these quotes will inspire both to be better.


“Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.”― Graeme Greene

“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”―Alexandra Katehakis

“When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe. ―Johnny Depp

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ―Frederick Douglass

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” ―Sigmund Freud

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“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.”―Jane D. Hull

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” ―Robert Fulghum

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”―Jackie Kennedy

“I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‘parenting experts.’ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.” ―Brene Brown

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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” ―Franklin P. Jones

“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.”―Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.”―Shiv Khera

“Effective discipline is based on loving guidance. It is based on the belief that children are born innately good and that our role as parents is to nurture their spirits as they learn about limits and boundaries, rather than to curb their tendencies toward wrongdoing. Effective discipline presumes that children have reasons for their behavior and that cooperation can be engaged to solve shared problems.”―Peggy O’Mara

The Golden Rule of Parenting is: do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!―Louise Hart

“What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love”.―Nicholas Sparks

“You get what you tolerate!”―Henry Cloud

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“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.” ―Thomas Edison

“Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.” ― Walt Disney

“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.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. ― David Bly

Kids learn the difference between good and bad and right and wrong from their parents. One way they learn which behaviors and actions a parent wants is by how a parent responds. ― David Leads

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