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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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