Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children Quotes

“Getting children to say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you,’ directly and in writing, is one of the chief tasks of child-rearing. It is a simple matter, requiring about ten years of contant vigilance, but those who give up on it might as well—and generally do—concede failure on the entire enterprise of civilizing their young.”
― Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children

“There is no quick and easy way to rear a child. It takes eighteen years of constant work to get one into presentable enough shape so that a college will take him or her off your hands for the winter season, and it can easily take the child on permanently.”
― Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children