“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”
Erma Bombeck
“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.”
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain
“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.”
“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
“I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”
