“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

— Jean Kerr , book Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

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