My cousin sent me the following. Even an athiest must concede there is some truth to it. Athiests with kids, will, anyway. 
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Raising children
Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even G-d’s omnipotence did not extend to G-d’s kids. After creating heaven and earth, G-d created Adam and Eve. And the first thing he said was: “Don’t”.
“Don’t what?” Adam replied.
"Don’t eat the forbidden fruit," God said.
“Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve… we got forbidden fruit!”
“No way!”
“Yes way!”
"Don’t eat that fruit!" said G-d.
“Why?”
"Because I am your Father and I said so!" said G-d (wondering why he hadn’t stopped after making the elephants). A few minutes later G-d saw his kids having an apple break and was angry. “Didn’t I tell you not to eat the fruit?” the First Parent asked.
"Uh huh, " Adam replied.
"Then why did you?"
“I dunno” Eve answered.
“She started it!” Adam said.
“Did not!”
“Did too!”
“DID NOT!!”
Having had it with the two of them, G-d’s punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.
But there is reassurance in this story:
If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give them wisdom and they haven’t taken it, don’t be hard on yourself. If G-d had trouble handling children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
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~~Baloo
