Roger Lloyd-Pack Quotes

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I don't do anything else, at least I've done that.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

My greatest fear for my child is that he marries a woman exactly like me.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The book is really an attempt at explaining the impact of my childhood on myself and the ones I loved as an adult.

He doesn't know how to be warmer. I can't blame him. My dad had to deal with more stuff than I ever did.