1. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
  2. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot
  3. There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the “hot mom” trend
  4. Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum
  5. If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis
  6. Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman
  7. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren
  8. Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein
  9. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
  10. Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
  11. If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
  12. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
  13. When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out. ~Erma Bombeck

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