'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!
~Author Unknown to me~
