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Somebody Said

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Davros · 12/09/2004 21:05

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 sixth child as much as you love the first . . .

Somebody doesn't have six 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.

OP posts:
ebbie22 · 12/09/2004 21:10

That is so true..Do you mind if i print it?

coddychops · 12/09/2004 21:10

stop!

Tinker · 12/09/2004 21:11

Somebody said somebody has gone mad!

coddychops · 12/09/2004 21:11

someone said that these are naff

Twiglett · 12/09/2004 21:15

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coddychops · 12/09/2004 21:16

this do you?

ebbie22 · 12/09/2004 21:18

This poem I liked as some of those things rang true but you are going tooo far now...

ebbie22 · 12/09/2004 21:18

lol...

Davros · 12/09/2004 21:21

God I'm getting bored.....
REPEAT: Just explaining, I hate these poems and said I would post them all here so they have less reason to appear elsewhere (will repeat this disclaimer wherever necessary!)

OP posts:
coddychops · 12/09/2004 21:22

yes we have read it now
are oyu ok?

serenequeen · 12/09/2004 21:56

crikey, davros, what's got into you???

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