Rachel Blanchard Quotes

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father.

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.