RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT PARENTHOOD
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.
The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are
still on your side.
Avenge yourself ~~~ live long enough to be a problem to your children.
The best way to keep kids at home is to give it a loving atmosphere ~~ and
hide the keys to the car.
Parents: 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 babysitters 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.
There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, hire someone to
do it, or forbid your children to do it.
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 children.
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net