ERMA BOMBECK’S TEN TIPS
Never turn your back on a two-year old. Never pick out a Mother’s Day gift that you cannot afford. When traveling on an airline, check the children and sit next to your baggage. Never take your child to a pediatrician who has dead tropical fish in the aquarium of his waiting room. Never threaten them with things you can’t deliver. An example: “If you don’t open that bathroom door now, I am running away with Warren Beatty and you will never see Mommy again!” Never help your children with their homework, or they won’t graduate until they’re thirty-five. Never stand in the middle of a kitchen and say to a daughter,”Someday, all of this will be yours.” Clean fewer toilet bowls and spend more time eating popcorn in the living room and laughing. Love the child… even as you punish the deed. Tell them at least once a day that they are driving you crazy… but you cannot imagine a…
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