November 07, 2012

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso

June 15, 2012

I am convinced that most people do not grow up.  We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards.  We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up.  I think what we do is mostly grow old.  We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. ~ Maya Angelou (from "Letter to My Daughter")

June 08, 2012

Having children makes you no more a parent then having a piano makes you a pianist. ~ Michael Levine (from "Lessons at the Halfway Point")

February 20, 2012

You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance. ~ Franklin P. Jones

June 22, 2011

At one time or another I have insulted everybody and I am proud of that.  Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good.  I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting.  I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a perversion, Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's, and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant.  I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points onto Bush's I.Q., I would have started one.  I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and a flag burning makes me feel patriotic.  I think death is not the worst thing that can happen.  I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny.  I think children are not innocent, God doesn't write books, and Jesus wasn't a republican.  I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies.  I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay.  We'll be on for another six weeks here on ABC... ~ Bill Maher, prior to ABC cancelling his show

December 26, 2010

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed in the name of God, Jesus, and Mohamed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan.  Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. ~ Kenneth V. Lanning

November 02, 2010

Even very young children need to be informed about dying.  Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child.  This will make threatening him with it much more effective. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

October 06, 2010

"Time out", for me as a child, was my dad taking time out of his day to whip my ass. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

October 02, 2010

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become REAL. ~ Margery Williams (from "The Velveteen Rabbit")

July 05, 2010

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents. -- Carl Jung