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In A Nutshell
Little pearls of wisdom and humor for parents and parents-to-be.
- Cleaning the house while the children are still growing is like shoveling
the walk before it stops snowing. (Phyllis Diller)
- Children need open-ended toys like blocks, art supplies, little cars
and trucks, stuffed animals, and dolls. They can play with those kinds
of toys according to whatever is important to them at that moment. After
a fire destroyed our home in 1978, my three-year-old son played “Fire
on Navarro Ranch” with his fire truck for nine months! (The Mister
Rogers Parenting Book and Saralee)
- Children – you spend the first two years of their life teaching
them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them
to sit down and be quiet! (email from a friend)
- Being a parent is so overwhelming, you could cry just looking at
your child. It’s an overwhelming feeling of love, of wanting to
protect him from any pain, any hurt. And the joy! He makes me laugh.
I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. I feel completely fulfilled.
(Kelly Preston)
- Adopted children need to know that they were born, just like every
other baby in the world. It’s reassuring for them to know they
had the same beginnings as everyone else. (The Mister Rogers Parenting
Book)
- Babies are competent individuals who have their own agendas and should
be treated with respect. (Ruth Mason)
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