Parental Flaws Quotes

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

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

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

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

While my mom was flawed - as we all are - she loved her children more than anything in the world.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to a parental ideal, you start to see your parents as peers, perhaps, and that's not the healthiest thing at that early an age.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

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.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

There's a lot of ways someone can grow up, but one way is discovering your parents are not all they say they are.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Humans are incredibly selfish. And in parents, flaws become hyper focused.

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.