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The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family.

Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition.

But $160,140.00 isn’t so bad if you break it down.

It translates into:

* $8,896.66 a year

* $741.38 a month

* $171.08 a week

* A mere $24.24 a day!

* Just over a dollar an hour.

Still, you might think the best financial advice is; don’t have children if you want to be ‘rich.’ Actually, it is just the opposite.

What do you get for your $160,140.00?

* Naming rights: first, middle, and last!

* Glimpses of God every day.

* Giggles under the covers every night.

* More love than your heart can hold.

* Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.

* Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.

* A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.

* A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites.

* Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140.00, you never have to grow up.

You get to:

* finger-paint,

* carve pumpkins,

* play hide-and-seek,

* catch lightning bugs,

* never stop believing in Santa Claus.

You have an excuse to:

* keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,

* watch Saturday morning cartoons,

* go to Disney movies, and

* wish on stars.

You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother’s Day, and cards with backward letters for Father’s Day.

For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for your buck.

You get to be a hero just for:

* retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof

* taking the training wheels off a bike

* removing a splinter

* filling a wading pool

* coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs and

* coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.

You get a front row seat in history to witness the:

* First step

* First word

* First bra

* First date

* First time behind the wheel

You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you’re lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren.

You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.

In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.

That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!

Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren & great-grandchildren!!!!!!!

It’s the best investment you’ll ever make!!!!!!!!!

This was on a friend’s blog.  I liked it so I copied it.

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Michele Brown

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus -izzle.) Micizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal) Blue Horse

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on/or neighborhood if it’s a number) Olson Wending (I don’t have a middle name so I used my maiden name)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Bromi

6. YOUR SUPERHERO/CRIMINAL NAME: (your 2nd favorite color and favorite drink) Green Dr.Pepper

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd letter of your mom’s maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad’s name, 1st letter of a sibling’s first name, and last letter of your mom’s name) Iobhyan

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents’ middle names) James (Mom doesn’t have a middle name, so I guess I’ll have to become a man) 

9. YOUR HOOD NAME: (first 3 letters of your first name and add -iqua) Miciqua

Now copy, paste, and send on to all of your crazy friends. C’mon, do it and send it back to me, MAKE ME LAUGH!

 “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

— Henrik Ibsen

 

 

 

“Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. The mother who, in compliance with eternal law, brings into the world an immortal spirit occupies first rank in the realm of creation.”
–Gospel Ideals, “Respect for Mothers and Their Divine Role”, Improvement Era, 1953]
 
“If children are to be brought up in the way they should go, to be good citizens here and happy hereafter, they must be taught. It is idle to suppose that children will grow up good, while surrounded with wickedness, without cultivation. It is folly to suppose that they can become learned without education.”
–Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 273)

“Within every child is an adult in the making – and within every adult is a child who has just gotten older.”   ~Unknown

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
– William Arthur Ward

My new motto.

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