- Motherhood ~ If it was going to be easy, it never would have
started with something called labor!
- Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to
steer your car, and you get about the same results.
- To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in
their lives today.
- The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them
while they are still on your side.
- The best way to keep kids at home is to make the home a
pleasant atmosphere and to let the air out of the tires.
- The right temperature in a home is maintained by warm hearts,
not by hot heads.
- Raising a teenager is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
- Parents: People who bare infants, bore teenagers, and board
newlyweds.
- The joy of motherhood: the time when all the children are
finally in bed.
- Life's golden age is when the kids are too old to need
baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car.
- Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name
is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
- Grandparents are similar to a piece of string ~ handy to have
around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.
- A child outgrows your lap, but never outgrows your heart.
- God gave you two ears and one mouth.... so you should listen
twice as much as you talk.
- Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their
parents.
- You know the only people in this world who are always sure
about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
- Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like
trying to shovel the driveway during a snowstorm.
- Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was
when he was small, and half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
- There are only two things a child will share willingly,
communicable diseases and his mother's age.
- Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking
questions because they know all the answers.
- An alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don't
have small children.
- No wonder kids are confused today. Half the adults tell them
to find themselves; the other half tell them to get lost.
- Kids really brighten a household; they never turn off any
lights.
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