“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.”
Erma Bombeck
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" "Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" "Wasn't there any change?"”
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
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