Mignon McLaughlin - Children Quotes

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A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

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Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

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If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

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If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

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Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

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Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

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