"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it." ― Quentin Crisp Topic(s): Parenting More From Quentin Crisp "Men get laid, but women get screwed." "Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors." "The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." More In Parenting "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."― Garrison Keillor "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."― Doug Larson "I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting."― Barbara Bush