Children Quote by Nora Ephron

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

— Morton Hunt

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

— Morton Hunt

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time.…

— Ayelet Waldman

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor,…

— Virginia Satir

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.

— Simon Sinek

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

— Alexander Nix

“I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their…

— Joan Didion

Child psychology used to be something parents used; today they submit to it.

— Anonymous