The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old

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"The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old."
Jean Kerr
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare

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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
Ed Asner

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter...

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
-- John Gregory Brown

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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble.
Dennis Fakes

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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James Dobson

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A mother's children are portraits of herself

"A mother's children are portraits of herself."
-----Author unknown

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"God is as real as I am" the old man said. My faith was restored, for I knew that Santa would never lie

"God is as real as I am" the old man said. My faith was restored, for
I knew that Santa would never lie.

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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."

M. Grundler quotes

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Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
-- Milton R. Saperstein

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I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban

I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.
Author Kathy Lette

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching
- Roy L. Smith

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When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much my father had learned in seven years!

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain,

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Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.

Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.
-- William Attwood

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budinton Kelland

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. Anonymous

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If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later

If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
~Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"

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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
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Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart

# Discipline doesn't break a child's spirit half as often as the lack of it breaks a parents heart. Anonymous

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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

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Your children need your presence more than your presents

Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings

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