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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.

Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Family Judgement Mom Understand
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
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness Yourself
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Gift Morning Sad Spiritual Wake Up World
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Age Run Time Young
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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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
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
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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Humor Planning Surprise Wonderful
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Food Funny Path Tough
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Believe Book Children Friendship Herself Library Myself
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Children Family Funny Mom Myself Safety
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Body Born Children Deep Mom Pregnant
For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Appearance Home Humor Time Travel Yourself

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