Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.
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