Parenthood
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Raising kids is a walk in the park.
Jurassic Park.
—Anonymous
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The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
—Lane Olinghouse
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When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
—Nora Ephron
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Having children is like living in a frat house—nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.
—Ray Romano
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
—Erma Bombeck
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Recipe for Iced Coffee:
1. Have kids
2. Make coffee
—@toni_hammer
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90% of parenting is just thinking about when you can lie down again.
—Anonymous
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
—Phyllis Diller
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Not all who wander are lost. Some are just moms. In Target. Hiding from their children.
—@jocieopc
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I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
—Louis Armstrong
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
—Jesse Jackson
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He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
—Harper Lee
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To-night the self-same songs
are sung
The first green forest heard
My heart and the gray world
grow young
To shelter you, my bird
—Sophie Jewett
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The power of children can amaze.
—Bush
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What becoming a parent really does to your happiness
The two reasons parents regret having kids
What fresh hell: laughing in the face of motherhood
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The moms who breastfeed without being pregnant
Let your kids be bad at things
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Why we long for the most difficult days of parenthood