"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal, a norm of acting incomprehensively with sweetly blank looks. But you will find yourself strolling down the road to the funny farm- like my mother, who used to get so angry that she would forget my name:
"All right, come over here, Bar- uh, Bernie... uh, uh Biff...uh- what is your name, boy? And don’t you lie to me ’cause you live here and I’ll find out who you are and knock your brains out!" "
"We have always been against calling the children idiots. This philosophy has been basic for my wife and me. And we proudly lived by it until the children came along."
And the classic Cosby parenting quote:
" I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it."
1 comment:
I can relate. My mother would confuse our names quite often, and since I'm the youngest, I had to endure the chronological yelling of names until she hit upon mine. The first few years of my life I thought my name was "BruJeaCasBarb"
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