Parenting Criticism Quotes

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

'Bad mother' is probably the worst thing you can say to any woman who has children.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Mom-shaming drives me crazy.

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!

Where are all the sour patch parents?

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had a child. A relative asked me out to lunch and told me I was too old for motherhood.

Imagine just wanting to share photos of my kid and instead being told I'm unfit to be his mom because of my size.