Children - A Gift from Goad

Read this again and again to understand you and your children.

1. Children are living Jewels dropped from heaven.
2. Having children makes one, no more a parent, than having piano makes you a pianist.
3. The real menace about dealing with a child is, that in no time you begin to sound like one.
4. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
5. Every one is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone, but a school bus driver.
6. The children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
7. For a child to get very clean, something else has to get very dirty. That's why they need to invent use and throw bath towels.
8. There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.
9. Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you to reach it faster,too.
10. Children's parties remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
    
11. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
12. Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
13. Children seldom misquote you. In fact. they usaually repeat word for word what you should not have said.
14. Mothers of teens know why animals eat their young.
15. Your parent never appreciated art on walls when you were a child, suddenly they seem to appreciate the art on walls by your kids.
16. People who say they sleep like babies, usually don't have them.
17. Train the parent and spare the child.
18. There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
19. You know your children are grown up when they stop asking you, where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going.
20. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like clearing the driveway before it has stopped snowing.
21. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
22. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
23. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children.
24. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
25. Any one who says " Easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried it.
26. Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
27. Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
28. I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said that they certainly would not have paid for me.
29. Parents are not interested in justice, they are interested in peace and quiet.
30. Parent are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
31. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
32. Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home.
33. Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
34. Outings are so much more fun when we can savour them through the children's eyes.
35. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
36. You spend the first two years of their lives telling them how to walk and talk, then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.
37. Don't force your child to tell the truth all the time. Especially if you have been lying about your weight. ( taken from A product from ITC Ltd, Paperkraft, Expressions -02000364)