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Parent Quotes by Erma Bombeck
- Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she…
- Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
- All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
- My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
- To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
- It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's…
- When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
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