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. 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 give it a loving atmosphere --
and
hide the keys to the car.
The
right temperature in a home is maintained by warm hearts, not by
hot
heads.
Parents
are people who bare infants, bore teenagers, and board
newlyweds.
The
joy of motherhood: What a woman experiences 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.
There
are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, hire
someone
to do it, or forbid your children to do it.
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 willing: communicable
diseases
and his mother's age.
Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.
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.
Why
is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can
in
prison?
No
wonder kids are confused today. Half the adults tell them to find
themselves;
the other half tell them to get lost.
The
people hardest to convince that it's time for retirement are
children
at bedtime.
Kids
really brighten a household; they never turn off any lights.