Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. – M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter, “The Price of Tomato Juice”

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. – John J. Plomp

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do — just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck — and, of course, courage. – Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986