Excerpt from Reader's Digest June 2009 Issue
"Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and
the rest of the time when they will turn in." Write Eleanor Graham Vance
" If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent." Bette Davis
" Kids can be a pain in the ass when they're not a lump in your throat. " Barbara Johnson
"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude." Ralph Emerson
"The quickest way to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." Lane Olinhouse
"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children." Doris Day
"Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth." Peter Ustinov