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
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — 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
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
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — 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
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — 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
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
