From: "John Beamish" 

You spend the first 2 years teaching them to walk and talk and the next 20
telling them to sit down and shut up.


On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:25:39 -0400, Don Hills
 wrote:

> In article , Tony Williams 
> wrote:
>>
>>    ...       Teaches them how to behave in company too (there's an
>> element of wisdom in the seen-but-not-heard rule).
>
> Ah, now there I've had mixed success. The older girl was chosen for a
> movie
> role because of her contradictory combination of inner calm and ability
> to
> communicate. "She speaks very well" is a common compliment.
But like the
> donkey in Shrek, "It's the getting her to shut up that's the problem".
>

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