Somebody said a mother is an unskilled laborer . . .
somebody never gave a squirmy infant a bath.
Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal
after you've had a baby . . .
somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother,
normal is history.
Somebody said a mother's job consists of wiping noses
and changing diapers . . .
somebody doesn't know that a child is much more than the shell
he lives in.
 
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct . . .
somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
Somebody said being a mother is boring . . .
somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's
permit.
Somebody said teachers, psychologists and pediatricians know
more
about children than their mothers . . .
somebody hasn't invested her heart in another human being.
Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child
will "turn out" . . .
somebody thinks a child is like a bag of plaster of Paris that
comes with directions, a mold and a guarantee.
Somebody said being a mother is what you do in your spare time
. . .
somebody doesn't know that when you're a mother,
you're a mother all the time.
Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices
. . .
somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her
child
wind up and hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.
Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother . .
.
somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.
Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love
the first . . .
somebody doesn't have five children.
Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing
questions in the books . . .
somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose.
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and
delivery . . .
somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for
the first day of
kindergarten.
Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed
and one hand tied behind her back . . .
somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets
married . . .
somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law
to a mother's heartstrings.
Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves
home . . .
somebody never had grandchildren.
Somebody said being a mother is a side dish on the plate of life
. . .
somebody doesn't know what fills you up.
Somebody said your mother knows you love her,
so you don't need to tell her . . .
somebody isn't a mother.
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