Since we featured moms on Mother's Day and dads on their day, here are a couple of things about kids:

   ** Train a child in the way he should go, and walk
        there yourself once in a while.
             -- American Proverb


   **  My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived,
             and let me watch him do it.
                  -- Clarence Budington Kelland

..........or as Tim Platt said in his sermon on Sunday,

"Kids won't do what they are told to do...........they'll do what they see you do.

They will do what you do!"

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..........and shared by Colleen and Ron Hackley:

TWELVE GOLDEN RULES FOR

    BRINGING UP CHILDREN

1.  Remember that a child is a gift from God, the richest of

     blessings.

2.  Don't crush a child's spirit when he fails.

3.  Remember that anger and hostility are natural emotions.

4.  Discipline your child with firmness and reason.

5.  Remember that each child needs two parents.

6.  Do not hand your child everything his/her little heart desires.

7.  Do not set yourself up as the epitome of perfection.

8.  Do not make threats in anger, or impossible promises when

     you are in a generous mood.

9.  Do not smother your child with superficial manifestations of

     "love."

10. Teach your child there is a dignity in hard work, whether it is

      performed with callused hands that shovel coal or skilled

      fingers.

11. Do not try to protect your child against every small blow or

      disappointment.

12.  Teach your child to love God and to love his fellow man.