MAKING
MOMS

Topics: Child Rearing; Children; Family; Home; Mothers

References: Proverbs 29:15; 31:10–31; Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15

Here’s how several elementary school students answered the following questions about moms:

Why did God make mothers?

•     She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is.

•     Mostly to clean the house.

•     To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

•     He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

•     Magic plus superpowers and a lot of stirring.

•     God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

Of what ingredients are mothers made?

•     God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world, and one dab of mean.

•     They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

•     We’re related.

•     God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

—Peg Beukema, Nyack, New York