Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one.… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
