Being Quote by Morton Hunt

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

— Nora Ephron

By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and…

— Bob Harper

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

— Alain de Botton

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or…

— Sir Fulke Greville

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as…

— Garrison Keillor

There is little reward for being a good parent.

— John Duffy

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of…

— Bill Ayers

To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

— Nick Cave

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child…

— Ann Douglas