If you were to hang a motto in your home, what would it say?
If you were given $100,000 to celebrate someone or something, who or what would you celebrate?
If you were to fast-forward your life five years, where would you be and what would you be doing? What changes would people see in you?
If you could take back something you said in 2009, what would it be?
If you were going to a costume party next week, what costume would you wear?
If you could grant any three wishes to one person, to whom would you grant them? Why?
Movies, naps, and comfort food. Today we were all ready for a slow, slow day with rest and relaxation the only thing on our “To Do” list. The kids and I watched a Disney movie, Skyrunners, about two teenage boys who find a crashed UFO and keep it for themselves.
During one scene they use the UFO to assist them in an attempt to attract a young lady. At this point my eleven year old son said;
“That UFO is quite the chick magnet.”
That statement wasn’t exactly reassuring that I have raised him with the proper understanding of male-female relationships . However, it was not nearly as disconcerting as the note we found in his school bag back when he was about eight.
“I am in love with Ashley, but Heather is my back-up plan.”
Well, at least he understands contingency planning.
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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
~ Erma Bombeck
Parents are not interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.
~ Bill Cosby
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~ Phyllis Diller
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~ King Edward VII
The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven’t the faintest idea how to do their homework.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Nurses nurse
and teachers teach
and tailors mend
and preachers preach
and barbers trim
and chauffeurs haul
and parents get to do it all.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
~ Franklin P. Jones
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our children are being raised by appliances.
~ Bill Moyers
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
~ Robert Orben
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
~ Robert Orben
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
~ Anna Quindlen
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~ Rita Rudner
Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies in your power to train them up to a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them if they become careless and slack about it. Let it not be your fault, at any rate, if they never call on the name of the Lord.
~ John Ryle, in The Duties of Parents
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
~ Thomas Scott
An evil upbringing in the home is worse than the wars of God and Magog.
~ Talmud, Berakot, 7
He who teaches his son is as if he had taught his son, his son’s son, and so on to the end of all generations.
~ Talmud, Kiddushin, 30
Do not threaten a child. Either punish or forgive him.
~ Talmud, Semahot, 2, 6
Parents: A peculiar group who first try to get their children to walk and talk, and then try to get them to sit down and shut up.
~ Wagster’s Dictionary of Humor and Wit
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
I’ve got two wonderful children — and two out of five isn’t too bad.
~ Henry Youngman
