Imperfect Parents Quotes

There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.