Parenting Skills

These are cathedrals of shopping. - Emile Zola

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Eyebrows: What I do when I go shopping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

Eat: What kids do between meals, but not at them - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. - Tammy Faye Bakker

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. - Doris Day

Dubm Waiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Kidnapping: The short snatches of rest a parent gets when baby sleeps - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talbert

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

Future generations may well ask themselves, what were our parents thinking? - Al Gore

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one. - Diane Lane

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. - Ryan Sheckler

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown

I don't believe in e-mail. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up. - Sarah Jessica Parker

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. - Haim Ginott

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point. - Mark Zuckerberg

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

You know you're a mom when you go to the store for yourself and come out with a bag of things for your kids. - Unknown

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. - Maria Shriver

Fall: The season when your wife buys new winter clothes so she will have something to wear when she goes out shopping for spring outfits - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer