"It's the three pairs of eyes that..." - Quote by Erma Bombeck
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.
More by Erma Bombeck
“Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.”
“When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.”
“I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.”
More on Motherhood
“Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.”
“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”
More on Parenting
“The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.”
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.”