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Here are a few of my favorite quotes about parenting.  Please share yours!

"Childen need encouragement like plants need water." Rudolf Dreikurs

"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate." Anonymous

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

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."  Elizabeth Stone

-- Greenmom500

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"The job of parents isn't to control a two-year old. The job of parents is to raise a 40 year old who isn't a jerk."
-- Hoyt Roberson

If you have a baby in the house, that means you won't be sleeping like one.

 You get what you get, and don't throw a fit.