In a Nutshell - 12: - Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos. (Alice Randall)
• Remember…you ARE eating for two, but it’s one adult and one baby. (Jennifer)
• When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces and they went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies. (J. M. Barry)
• Our life is basically…an infinite number of unfinished situations – incomplete gestalts. No sooner have we finished one situation than another comes up. (Frederick Perls)
• We can rely on the wisdom of the organism. (Frederick Perls)
• My mother is a woman who speaks with her life as well as her tongue. (Kesaya Noda)
• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. (Lady Bird Johnson)
• The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others. (Gloria Steinem)
• Having grandchildren is the best of all possible worlds. I don’t have any responsibility for them – I just do all the fun stuff. (Mary Beth)
• Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be. (Grandma Moses)