“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

'Daddy, there's Victor, only he has more white hairs now.' (about our neighbor 3 doors down who is a regular reader of McClelland Family.com)

“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)