Old-School Mom

Proverbs 22:6

King James Version (KJV)

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 31:26-27

English Standard Version (ESV)

26 She opens her mouth with wisdom,

    and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

27 She looks well to the ways of her house hold and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Yes, we learned it from you, Mom.  I well remember the feeling of standing by your side knowing that I would most certainly behave.  The notion of entertaining folly was, if anything, but a fleeting thought, because the certainty of consequences always followed.  Old-school moms had children that could be taken out in public without embarrassment.  They raised their children with a steely-eyed love, these keepers of home and household.  We knew we were children and that children were not in charge; and yes, there was fear but also security in that knowledge.  So it is with me now that I'm an adult accountable to God for my actions.   Thanks, Mom.