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

Erma Bombeck

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Live Play Religious See Travel Understand Yourself
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny Yourself
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Communication Inspirational Life Listening Suffering
I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Angry Book Children Family Funny Hands Kiss Myself Reading Theory Yourself
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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Evening Failure Feeling Goodness Misery Sun
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Body Boundary Community Fun Funny Humor Myself Smile
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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Children Courage Funny Inspirational Moments Parents White
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Buy Fate Funny Price Yourself
Children make your life important.
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Children Important Literature One Liner Worth
Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Children Funny Parents Reward Survive
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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Clothes Growth Parents Yourself
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Food Funny Life
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry

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