“I love my mom because she is cool. She works in the library, so I do not have any fines,” says Katherine, 12.

Having no fines on library books could be important. Recently, I found a library book due in 1976. No, it wasn’t mine. At 10 cents a day for 30 years, that’s $1,095.

I once produced a video for a Mother’s Day live event. Even though I don’t know their names or ages, here are some gems that emerged much to the delight and sometimes to the embarrassment of parents in the audience:

“She laughs really nice. It’s loud, but it’s real easy to find her. I like it a lot.”

“Practically every kid’s mom does this. When you have a dirty face, she licks her hand and smears it all over your face.”

“If I get a bad grade in school, then she’ll laugh about it because she remembers the time she got a bad grade in school.”

Most of us can only wish our moms had laughed at our bad grades. There’s a lot more moms like the one Morgan, 8, describes: “My mom is patient and kind. She loves me with all her heart. Now I wonder why she makes rules.”

Moms make rules because they don’t want us to be ruled by our laziness, bad habits and shortsighted decisions. Mom’s first priority is to make sure you survive. Can you even imagine a world in which moms didn’t care? The world would end because no one would survive childhood years.

Sometimes moms have to raise more than one boy, says T.J., 10, and he’s not talking about his brother: “My mom makes sure I have no sicknesses, and she always plays games with me. She cooks good. She makes sure my dad don’t get in trouble.”

Let’s boil it down to mom essentials, says Alexa, 7: “She’s loveable, huggable, kissable. There you have it.”

Although the entire Bible is profitable for instructing children, Proverbs 31 contains a mother’s advice to her son. The son is a king called Lemuel, which many Bible scholars believe to be a name of endearment used by Bathsheba for her son Solomon. Translated, the name means “Belonging to God.”

Mother Bathsheba warns her son against drinking in excess and getting involved with the wrong kind of women, which she describes as giving your strength to women. Although many men and women have ruined their lives by drinking, the consequences are even worse for judges and leaders. “Lest they drink and forget the law; and pervert the justice of all the afflicted” (Proverbs 31:5).

Drunkenness clouds the judgment and promotes forgetfulness of the law, which in this context is God’s Word. You may know the Bible, but if you drink to excess, amnesia will overcome you. When leaders drink in excess, those who depend on them suffer. Justice is perverted.

Instead of drinking, Solomon’s mom urged him to “judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy” (Proverbs 31:9). Make righteous decisions and stand up for those who have little or no voice, the poor and the needy.

On a Habitat for Humanity project, former president Jimmy Carter said that most Americans don’t even know a poor person. The Bible promises great blessings for those who help the poor (Proverbs 22:9).

As for giving your strength to a woman, every mother should read to her son Bathsheba’s advice about the character traits of a virtuous woman (Proverbs 31:10-31). Her worth is far above rubies.

Think about this: If men stayed sober and married virtuous women, the world as we know it would dramatically change.

Memorize this truth: “My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother” (Proverbs 6:20).

Ask this question: Do you value the kind of virtues in women praised in Proverbs 31?

Carey Kinsolving is a syndicated columnist, producer, author, speaker and website developer. To see Carey’s Kid TV Interviews and more, visit http://www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org/ The Kids Talk About God website contains free, online content for children and families. Print free lessons from the “Kids Color Me Bible” and make your own book. Watch for free the adventures of an 11-year-old girl traveling around the world, visiting missionaries in the Mission Explorers Streaming Video. Print Bible pictures drawn by kids that illustrate Scripture verses. Receive a complimentary, weekly e-mail subscription to our Devotional Bible Lessons. Bible quotations in this column are from the New King James Version.

Copyright 2006 Carey Kinsolving

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Pregnancy is not without its side effects. During pregnancy your body will undergo many hormonal changes. These hormone fluctuations can result in a variety of unpleasant symptoms including: nausea, fatigue, bloating and fluid retention and mood swings.

What’s a pregnant woman to do? Believe it or not, there are many changes you can make to your diet that will help minimize many of the common pregnancy complaints you are having.

Nausea/Morning Sickness - This is one of the more common complaints pregnant women have, particularly during their first trimester. Many women find that sipping on some

fizzy soda water with fresh squeezed lemon often helps reduce nausea. Ginger tea is also another well known remedy for nausea and morning sickness. If you are still not feeling better, an extra 10 to 25 milligrams of vitamin B6 is often just enough to help ease nausea. You can take a supplement or try foods rich in B6 such as lean meats, fish and avocados.

Edema - Most women swell a little during pregnancy. The best thing you can do to ease swelling is drink more water. You may think you are already drinking too much, but in all reality you probably aren’t. Some women find that wearing compression hosiery can also help reduce fluid retention. Some women also find that a little extra calcium/magnesium can help combat fluid retention and bloating.

Fatigue - Exercise is often the best way to get rid of pregnancy induced fatigue. Even if you think you are too tired to work out, you’ll find you feel much better after exercising. Eating six small meals per day will also help energize you. Be sure you also consume foods rich in iron to prevent anemia, a common cause of fatigue
in pregnant women.

Mood Swings - Mood changes are almost inevitable during pregnancy due to rampant hormonal fluctuations. Be sure you get plenty of rest to help combat fatigue that can contribute to mood swings. You might also consider supplementing with essential fatty acids, which may be beneficial for reducing anxiety and depression.

Don’t forget above all else that most of the symptoms of pregnancy are just temporary, and before you know it you will be back to your jubilant, pre pregnancy self!

Article by Beverley Brooke, visit http://www.pregnancy-weight-loss.com for more on pregnancy

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Many young adults can not only accept their parents’ divorce but much suffer from emotional and psychological stresses. They are affected by late divorces even more than kids are, because they understand they will not have a complete family any more. Among emotional and psychological stresses which affect young adults the deepest ones are the following: anger because of loss of ideal-family illusion, feeling of abandoned child who one of the parents do not want to care of any more, disappointment and unbelief in long-term relationships between men and women, extreme behavior to either draw parents’ attention to them or show their disagreement with parents’ decision; devaluation of morals which have been valued before.

Such strong negative emotions will inevitably affect young adults future life and decisions. Unhappy family model will ‘help’ to believe there is no any reason to create a family in a future because all men (women) are ‘betrayers’.

Another poor affect, which most occurs among young adult children rather than kids, is inevitable weakening in relations with either mother or father. Usually the weakened relationships happen between daughter and father, son and mother. It can be explained by the most popular motive of divorce initiation: end of physical attraction and sexual desire. Young adult children can accept all people have to change their partners through life, but they cannot accept this would happen to their parents! Therefore, a daughter cannot excuse her father’s desire to have another woman and a son would accuse his mother of adultery.

Although so strong affects overwhelm young adults’ behavior, emotions, motives and desires the adult children have still willingness to restore their family harmony and they initiate some actions which, they think, would help to re-connect their parents. The most popular and accepted ideas include: increased financial aid demand from both parents (such demands would show the both parents’ guilt), decreased assistance or full refusal to help mother/father with their home/family duties (if there is no family its duties have no any values any more).

The psychological aspect mostly includes the human nature resistance to accept changes. The ability to be changeable is usually experienced through adult life (different works, new people, traveling, relationships and work stresses etc.). Inexperienced young adult children are not able to accept the complete change in their lives especially if they are not ready to them (the parents’ decision to divorce has been a full surprise). Here parents are mistakenly sure their adult children would accept their final decision and they should not be involved in parents’ bad relationships discussion. Adult children must have a right to be respected through sincere discussion and explanation of what is happening to their parents’ relationships. Sometimes children’s involvement into divorce discussion helps to turn the discussion into the new and unexpected decision.

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