Parenting Regret Quotes

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.