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	Babyup.com - Site for new and used parents. Parenting advice, baby photographs, stories, chatroom and shopping.
	Babyworld - Information on pregnancy and babies.
	Behaviour Change Consultancy - Helps to change the behaviour of difficult children. Details of the services, information on some of the behavioural problems encountered and contact information.
	UK Baby Guide - Directory of sites covering clothing, toys, equipment and other goods for the new or expectant parent.
	Parents Online - Helps parents with children of primary school age. Covers education, health and leisure. Advice, activities, worksheets and games to download.
	Parents Information Network - Independent service rating children's software, tested by its network of families and teachers. Also offers a wide variety of other IT related parenting information.
	Parent Index UK - Parental guide and directory covering health, childcare, education, entertainment and a variety of other topics. Also offers forums and free membership.
	For Parents by Parents - Parenting resource for mums and dads of 0-5 years old babies. Help with being parents, coping with kids, feeding, recipes, childcare, plus a message board.
	The Baby Registry - Information on babycare and parenthood including advice, factsheets, and problem solving. Message forum and newsletter included.
	BabyCentre - Resource for pregnancy and babies. Created by parents and reviewed by doctors, midwives and other experts. Current articles, answers to thousands of questions, week by week information, baby name finder, pregnancy calendar, connections with other parents online.
	Babylist - Advisory, sourcing and supply service for parents-to-be. Details of the service, press releases and product overviews.
	Gingerbread - A registered charity for the support of lone parents in Britain, run by lone parents. Includes links to regional groups, and summaries in a range of community languages.
	Meet A Mum Association - Charity helping mothers and mothers-to-be by putting them in touch with each other. Information on local groups, starting a group and individual contacts.
	Full-Time Mothers - Organisation supporting and promoting the role of full time mothers. Includes key issues, local groups, newsletter and book reviews.
	BrightonBaby - UK parenting website, featuring freebies, recipes, rhymes, and informative articles.
	Working Families - Campaigning charity supporting and giving voice to working parents and carers, and helping employers create workplaces that encourage work-life balance for everyone.
	Parents In Partnership - Parent Infant Network (PIPPIN) - National charity whose main aim is to maintain and improve the emotional health of families through the period surrounding the birth of a new baby. Includes services, events and recommended reading.
	Parenting People - Offering courses, support and guidance for mums and dads.
	Parentline Plus - Registered charity, offering support to anyone parenting a child. Free phone helpline, courses for parents, innovative projects and information for parents.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Parenting Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Parenting When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parenting In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Parenting As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Parenting Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Parenting More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Parenting I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Parenting I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Parenting Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Parenting Marriage is a rest period between romances. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Parenting Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Parenting I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Parenting Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Parenting "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Parenting Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Parenting He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Parenting Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Parenting The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Parenting Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Ana�s Nin It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Parenting All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Parenting Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... 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