Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.