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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Many children of such parents learn to subjugate themselves to other people’s wishes (Young and Klosko 1993). Because they grew up anticipating their parent’s stormy emotional weather, they can be overly attentive to other people’s feelings and moods, often to their own detriment.

Get real up to a certain age, you need your parents, then later, they need you.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.

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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

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[Pru] "...He's still trying to work out what you two did to him, as if you were the only parents in the world who didn't keep wiping their kid's ass until he was thirty. I tell him: Get real, Nelson. Lousy parents are par for the course. My God. Nothing's ideal."

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Something that's obvious in retrospect but I only noticed after years as a primary school parent: kids who are bullies or assholes tend to have parents who are too, and this often makes it hard for the administrators to keep a lid on bad behavior.

Here's the problem: A lot of parents are insane. You may be one of these parents without knowing it, because the craziness takes over you gradually.

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Parents do not care about children: there is a failure of the family. They have given them only money and good life without taking care of their education, ideas, mentality. They have exposed them to the ideological propaganda that promised them to become heroes or have Heaven, by killing. There is a generation gap.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.

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