Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.
I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was, like, nine. I loved my father, don't get me wrong. I really loved him, but he wasn't a good dad, and he wasn't a good husband.
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.
Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.
I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.
Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
Sadly, there is no law against being an idiotic parent.
Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
