TRAINING CHILDREN 623

                                                TRAINING CHILDREN  623

                     "Training is everything," wrote Mark Twain.
                     "The peach was once a bitter almond.
                     Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a
                     college education."

                    Parenthetically, we might also include:
                    A prune is a plum with great potential 
                    pathetically gone dry.

                  Our children are trained by everything we
                  do or don't. By our every word or silence.
                  By our every action or reaction. By our
                  absence or attendance to the duties of
                  child-rearing, our children will trained.

                 Plan now for "great" grandchildren. 
                 Train up your children in the way they
                 should go.

                 (First published on May 24, 1979)