KEEP YOUR PANTS ON It was one of Mother's hectic days. Her small son, who had been playing outside, came in with his pants torn. "You go right in, remove those pants and start mending…
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GETTING THEM NOT TO NOTICE Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do…
WHEN WITHOUT A TISSUE One day I looked out the door to check on my four-year-old and two-year-old playing outside. My two-year-old, Ellen, was on the ground face down and four- year-old Noah was on…
KEEP MOM RUNNING SMOOTHLY Perhaps mothers should come with a maintenance agreement which provides for a complete overhaul every five years, three kids, or 300,000 miles, whichever comes first. Here are several points which ought…
THE NEED FOR HUMBLE WORKS Mother Theresa of Calcutta has well said, "We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We…
BIG BROTHER BLUES A mother held her three-year-old son on her lap and informed him that he would soon be a big brother. She said that he could push the baby's carriage, hold the baby's…
MOM KNOWS THE SWING Minor leaguer Pete Rose Jr., son of baseball's all-time hits leader on why he calls his mother when he is in a slump: "My dad was such a great hitter, he…
GOOD OLD DAYS WERE TERRIBLE Cooking, the kitchen's major activity, was done in an open-hearth fireplace with crooks and arms or, more likely, on an iron stove. The early stove was an appliance of marked…
TO MY GROWN-UP SON My hands were busy through the day I didn't have much time to play The little games you asked me to. I didn't have much time for you. I'd wash your…
TO MY DAUGHTER The reason you began to love Was because God gave you a special way Of seeing the perfection He created in you. He let you look beyond Your humanness To see each…
THE OLD MOM A sign in a restaurant revealed the harsh reality: "Our pies are like the ones your mother used to bake - before she entered the work- force."
OLD GUIDELINES FOR LIVING A century ago, Robert Louis Stevenson devised a number of rules to help people to live happier, more productive lives. These rules may be a century old, but they are still…
SILENT SUFFERING Helen True, Spokane, Washington The other day when our little girl was being particularly cute, I exclaimed, "Oh, Chris, what do people without a two-year-old do!" Her response: "They suffer...IN SILENCE."
MOM'S WRONG MEAL To make the last night of our eight-week cross-country vacation really special, we decided to have dinner at El Tovar on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon before heading home the…
A PRAYER FOR MOM Johnny had been misbehaving and was sent to his room. After a while he emerged and informed his mother that he had thought it over and then said a prayer. "Fine,"…
THE COB IN THE COBWEB Terri Ryan, Texas When Meghan was about four, she noticed a cobweb (horrors!) on my ceiling. She said, "Mama, there is a spider web with no spider in it!" I…
WHAT'S A MOTHER WORTH? Sylvia Porter, a noted financial analyst, states that 25 million full-time homemakers contribute billions to the economy each year, although their labor is not counted in the gross national product. Porter…
WHEN FLAKES ARE DROPS Several years ago, we actually had snow one winter morning here in Houston. My oldest, Meghan, then six or seven years old said, "Mommy just look at all those snowdrops!" From…
LIMITED TIME ONLY Some time ago I saw an advertisement for a parenting book which pictured a tiny baby on a table. The caption read, "Yours, for a limited time only." How true! Taken from…
ONE BECOME TWO Erich Fromm has said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must…
