In a Nutshell -4: Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• The baby is the book. Read it, you won’t be able to put it down! (Jan Hunt)
• A crane calling in the shade. Its young answers it. I have a good goblet. I will share it with you. (I Ching)
• Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. (Jean Kerr)
• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. (Pamela Hansford Johnson)
• When I take another’s needs into consideration and bend, I spiritually stretch. (Helene Lerner-Robbins)
• If newborns could remember and speak, they would emerge from the womb carrying tales as wondrous as Homer’s. (Newsweek)
• The child’s state of consciousness is not to be rejected or replaced, but supplemented by the growing knowledge that you can’t get what you want by force….This is what we have to teach children with the utmost patience we can muster. (Ina May Gaskin)
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Erma Bombeck)