On Being a Mother...

~If we love our children unconditionally, what could we want them to be that is more perfect than what they already are? If they shared our ambitions and interests exactly, they would not be themselves but only copies of us. (author Roni Jay)

~We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (comedian Phyllis Diller)

~We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (comedian Phyllis Diller)

~A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories, and no actual children. (Humorist Dave Barry)

~Children rarely misquote their parents. Quite the opposite, they repeat brilliantly word for word things their parents should never have said. (Anonymous)