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Your Responsibility As A Parent

May 5, 2005

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conquerer of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the world ‘collectible’ as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”

Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies, 1981

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    Jodi

    May 10, 2005 11:42 AM

    If I didn’t love you enough before, now I can’t possibly love you more. Not only did you quote the brilliant Fran Lebowitz from the first book of hers I ever read (lo so many years ago), but you used one of the quotes I love the most.

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    Jodi

    May 10, 2005 11:43 AM

    P.S. The first line of my comment rhymed. It was unintentional.

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    Alex

    May 10, 2005 1:31 PM

    A HA HA!

    By this kind of criteria I’ll probably fail as a parent.

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    Kate

    May 12, 2005 1:39 AM

    What about the term Tchotchkes?

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    jenny

    May 13, 2005 9:25 AM

    I use the title “collectible” to lend dignity to my hodge-podge cache of thrift-store finds, hand-me-downs, and things that were so astonishingly ugly that I just had to buy them. It sounds so much better than “crap.”

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    jenny

    May 13, 2005 9:26 AM

    …though the two terms may be used interchangeably…