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No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purch

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. – Marcelene Cox

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: theres always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. – Marcelene Cox

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Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: theres the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. – Marcelene Cox

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My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawfords wire hangers look like pool noodles. – Sloane Crosley

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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they dont want them to become politicians in the process. – John F. Kennedy

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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. – Roy L. Smith

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