“[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.”
Nora Ephron
“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.”
Erma Bombeck
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
Oscar Wilde
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
