"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.......
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
2013 version.......
Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone, free internet, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, and free medicine, he will vote Democratic the rest of his life, even after he's dead.
Is there a magic cutoff period when offspring become accountable for their own actions?
My friends said that when my kids got married, I could stop worrying and lead my own life. I wanted to believe that, but I was haunted by my mother's warm smile and her occasional, "You look pale. Are you all right? Call me when you get home."
One of my children became quite irritable recently, saying to me, "Where were you? I've been calling for 3 days, and no one answered. I was worried!
I smiled a warm smile......The torch has been passed.
Last year on Mother's Day, we were rushing around trying to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. We finally got everyone in the car and I couldn't find Eli.
I searched everywhere and I finally rounded the corner to go into the bathroom, and there was Eli applying chapstick to the cat's rear end!
Eli looked into my eyes and said, 'chapped'... Now if you have a cat, you know that he is right...their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly the cat didn't seem to mind.
And the only question to ask at that point was whether it was the first time Eli had done that, or the humdreth time...
That is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've been usuing your chapstick on the cat's butt! : )