“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
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Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.”
Source: The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year
“Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?”
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.”
Source: CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES
“Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”
“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh
“There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.”
“Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”
“I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.”
“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”