Laura Z. Hobson Quotes

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring

My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The children of childish parents age quickly.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.