These Things I Wish For My Grandchildren

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches. I really would. I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your dog put to sleep. I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it’s all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he’s scared, I hope you let him. When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you’ll let him. I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don’t ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won’t be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom. If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like. May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. I don’t care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don’t like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend. I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor’s window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand. These things I wish for you - tough times and hard work, disappointment and happiness. To me, it’s the only way to appreciate life. Written with a pen. QuotaBills The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Laughter is the best medicine. - Joe-kster Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. - Gary Veale We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets Medicine is only for those who cannot imagine doing anything else. - Luanda Grazette My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. - Red Skelton One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. - P.J. O'Rourke A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. - Sir Walter Raleigh The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman The practice of medicine is a thinker's job, the practice of surgery a plumber's. - Martin H. Fischer Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. - Robert Orben Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. - Shaquille O'Neal You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. - Unknown Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. - Mark Hyman God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. - C S Lewis The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. - Mimi Kennedy Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. - Martin H. 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23-Jan-2022