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• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine.
  You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star....
• Never allow your child to call you by your first name.
  He hasn't known you long enough. -- Fran Lebowitz...
• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
  -- Fran Lebowitz...
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• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
  -- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studie...
• Pro: Children ask better questions than do adults. "May I have a cookie?
  "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?...
• Responsibility: Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility.
  This is a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something goes wrong....
• I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
  Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake....
• If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. -- Bette Davi