Parenting.

Nurses nurse,
and teachers teach,
and tailors mend,
and preachers preach,
and barbers trim,
and chauffeurs haul,
and parents get to do it all. -Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Familiarity breeds children. -Mark Twain

Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than get out of. -Bruce Lansky

If your parents never had children, chances are you wont, wither. -Dick Cavett

A crying baby is the best form of birth control. -Carole Tabbron

Have children while your parents are still young
enough to take care of them. -Rita Rudner

An advantage to having one child is you always
know who did it. -Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got
to sleep alone until I was married. -Lewis Grizzard

It goes without saying that you should never have more
children then you have car windows. -Erma Bombeck

MotherHood

GOD could not be everywhere. That's why he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb

If evolution really works, how come
mothers only have two hands? -Milton Berle

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy,
fathers would do it. -Dorothy on The Golden Girls

Hey, the way I figure it is this: if the kids are still alive by the time
my husband comes home, I've done my job. -Roseanne Arnold

Any mother could perform the jobs of several
air traffic controllers with ease -Lisa Alther

The phrase 'Working Mother' is redundant. -Jane Sellman

Parenting 101

Before I was married I had six theories about raising children. now I
have six children and no theories. -John Wilmot, earl of Rochester

Most parents find it very hard to be consistent -
except when it come to losing their temper. -Bruce Lansky

I didn't make the same mistakes my parents made when they raised me.
I was too busy making new ones. -Bruce Lansky

The quickest for a parent to get a child's
attention is to sit down and look comfortable. -Lane Olinghouse

Setting a good example for Children takes all the fun out of middle age. -William Feather

Parents: A pecuilar group who first try to get their children to
walk and talk, and then try to get them to sit down and shut up. -Wagsters Dictionary of Humor and Wit

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot - but I always found them. -Rodney Dangerfield

Stress

Dear GOD, I pray for patience. And I want it right now. -Oren Arnold

We learn many things from children. Patience, for instance. -Frankling P. Jones

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes
so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving
the house so silent you think you are going mad. -John Andrew Holmes

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. -Sam Levinson

You know you've lost control when you're the one
who goes to your room. -Baba Bell Hajdusiewicz

Before I had kids I went home after work to
rest. Now I go to work to rest. -Simon Ruddell

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like
shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. -Phyllis Diller

Children are a grat comfort in your old age -
and they help you reach it faster, too. -Lionel Kauffman

You know you've spent too much time carpooling your kids when fast-food,
drive-through servers recognize your voice. -Linda Fiterman

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children,
an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future. -Anna Quindlen




Taken from 'The Funny Side of Parenthood'