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18 Hilarious Parenting Quotes to Celebrate Parents' Day

Parents' Day is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than with some funny and humorous parenting quotes? After all, if there's one thing parents deserve, it's a good laugh every now and then. These 18 hilarious parenting quotes are sure to crack smiles on the faces of moms and dads everywhere.

1. "A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes." ~ Russell Lynes

2. "The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." ~ Lane Olinhouse

3. "When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out." ~ Erma Bombeck

4. "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." ~ Bill Cosby

5. "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." ~ Franklin P. Jones

6. "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own." ~ Doug Larson.

7. "A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." ~ Bill Vaughan.

8. "In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice." ~ Charles Dickens

9. "It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner." ~ Ben Bergor

10. "The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is because they have a common enemy." ~ Author Unknown

11. "Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we've set aside enough money to pay for our kids' therapy." ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

12. "The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet." ~ Bill Cosby

13. "Mothers are all slightly insane." ~ J.D. Salinger

14. "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." ~ Calvin Trillin

15. "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" ~ Milton Berle

16. "Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare." ~ Ed Asner

17. "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth." ~ Peter Ustinov

18. "Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes." ~ Joyce Armor

And here is another random article you might be interested in...

Accountability In Trading

I recently heard from a trader who told me he has been having problems with discipline in his day trading. He knows how to trade, he knows the setups he needs to be looking for in the charts, when to enter, and when to exit. His trouble is in having the discipline to wait for only those setups and not to take half baked trades in the meantime.

This is a very common problem for traders, I imagine everyone goes through it at some stage in their career. In working with student traders over the years, I have noticed a phenomenon that I think explains one of the reasons for this lack of discipline. When I watch student traders trade, they tend to sit very patiently and explain to me what they are seeing on the chart in front of them. When they see a valid setup come along, they can quite happily tell me what the setup is and how they plan to trade it, and subsequently they will execute the trade accordingly. When the same student is trading alone, they start taking all sorts of off-plan trades, setups that aren't really setups at all. It seems that the difference when trading alone, is that the trader suddenly has no accountability. If they have someone looking over their shoulder keeping them in check, everything is fine. They know that if they take an off-plan trade then they will have to explain to me why they did so when it all goes horribly wrong. Trading at home alone, the trader is accountable only to themself, and they are probably not going to give themself the same hard time I would if they didn't follow their trading plan to the letter!

So it seems that one of the benefits of trading for a living, that independence from the boss, can actually be a hindrance at times. Short of hiring a manager to stand watch over them, what can a trader do to overcome this lack of accountability in their trading? One method I recommend is to give a running commentary out loud throughout the trading session, as if talking to a mentor. Explain what you are seeing on the chart, where you think a trade is setting up and why, how you will enter, how you will manage the trade, and where you will be exiting wherever the price subsequently goes. When talking out loud you use a different part of the brain than when simply thinking to yourself, and that can have surprising consequences; it's easy to talk yourself into a trade that you want to take even though you know it's not quite right, but talk through it out loud and you'll hear yourself making excuses and quickly see the error you are about to commit. I know talking to yourself sounds a little odd, but it really works.

Another option for making yourself more accountable for your trades is to join a chat room. There are loads of them about, plenty of free ones as well as some paid ones which call trades in real time (I wouldn't recommend those by the way, they are often run by people front running their own calls). If you find a decent room and commit yourself to calling your trades in real time, knowing that you will have to explain to the room exactly why you just took that really stupid trade will really make you think twice about taking it in the first place.

These are two simple ways of making yourself more accountable for your trades and therefore enforcing more discipline. There are many more interesting ways of increasing discipline as a personal skill, and I hope this article will have given you some ideas to start developing your own methods.