“[Parents can't get enough of the report cards.] In previous years at the State Fair, ... the department had kids throw beanbag frogs into holes. Last year, we printed out 5,000 school report cards instead. Parents would come up and say, 'I'm thinking of moving, or using open enrollment. Can you print out a report card for this neighborhood school, and the schools close to it?' What a change!”
Bill Walsh
“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
“Parents make tough calls every single day, and part of being a parent is knowing that sometimes the things you do will work and sometimes they won't work.”
Wanda Bethea
“When we stop trying to control others....whether they are our children, our spouse or parents, that's when we free ourselves to enjoy this journey called life.”
Rachel Thye
“I owe them a lot. It amazes me when I hear kids at school cussing their parents or saying they going to move out because their dad wouldn't let them go somewhere. I tell them they should know how lucky they are. A lot of them don't appreciate it like I do.”
Shawn Jones
“I think it's a parenting issue. I think kids are realizing they can participate with asthma, whereas years ago, parents would pull their kids out of physical activity.”
Liz Nash
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them”
Oscar Wilde
