Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
Interpretation
Expressing love for family improves relationships and brings happiness.
Erma Bombeck's quote highlights the importance of love and appreciation within family life. By simply declaring 'I love Mom' on a license plate, it symbolizes that open expressions of love can enhance familial bonds and overall happiness, reminding us that small gestures can have significant impacts in nurturing relationships.
In practice
This quote could be used in a family gathering to encourage expressions of love.
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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