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Parent Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
- Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
- The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
- Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
- Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
- Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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