In a Nutshell - 18: Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Carl Sandburg)
• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. (Josh Billings)
• By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. (Phyllis Diller)
• Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum)
• Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. (Marcelene Cox)
• A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. (Charles and Ann Morse)
• Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. (John O’Donohue)
• I learned that true words spoken can sometimes relax pelvic muscles by discharging emotions that effectively block further progress in labor. (Ina May Gaskin)
• All children – all people – are looking for the same things. We ALL want love and security and acceptance. A child may not be able to articulate those needs in clear sentences. Instead, a child will act out his feelings and hope that the adults around him get the right message. (Saralee Sky)