Sunday May 8, 2005

Dear Visitor:

To you wonderful mothers out there: Happy Mother's Day. God bless you for your labors and your tears and your prayers for your children.

However, to you horrible mothers out there, today is not for you. You have not sown good seed, so you cannot reap the rewards. Mothers, your responsibilities include teaching your sons and daughters how to be good citizens of this world. It involves teaching them ethics, responsibility, cleanliness and thoughtfulness. I am afraid many of you are failing. This may be because your parents failed you! However, that doesn't excuse you from your responsibility.

How do I know you are failing? Because, I see how people act on the roads. I see the litter. I see how people leave hotel rooms; food everywhere, beer spilled all over, food in the sheets. What makes it worse, they think the pittance that room-service personnel get is enough and don't bother to leave a tip. It goes even further than this, but it will suffice.

Another subject relevant for today is whether women should stay home with their children. I personally have my beliefs on this, but I will not share them here. I will only comment on studies that have been done on this subject. Years ago, studies were done and it was "proven" that children who had stay-at-home (or largely so) mothers did much better in life. However, recently the study has been redone, which proves this previous study incorrect.

The question is, why the discrepancy. My answer is this: we are now two or three generations into this world where mothers were a) not at home to teach and care for their children, or b) were at home and believed they should let their child be free (or some other excuse for not teaching and disciplining them). So, the discrepancy is this, there are so few mothers left who know how to really be a mother that there is virtually no difference between situations in which children find themselves; whether or not their mother is in the house.

God help this world if this is even half true. I know He is the only one who can even begin to help mothers be better. I surely pray he will.

Again, thank you to all you wonderful mothers. Thank you to my mom for all she did for me. I am only sorry I didn't learn all the lessons she tried to teach, such as patience. Thank you to the mother of my wonderful wife, you must have done something right to have a daughter like her.

Sincerely, Trever Adams

P.S. Mothers may be to blame, but this does not excuse the husband. He should be helping the wife teach. If she is not, he should be doing it!