Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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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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Children make your life important.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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