“There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!”

“There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.”

“Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.”

“The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.”

“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”

“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.”