Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Children
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It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
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No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
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If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
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Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
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There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
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When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
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Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
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Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
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Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
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Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
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Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
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Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
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