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♦ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007
Most important meal of
the day most perplexing
What did you have
for breakfast this
morning? I’m not
making polite conversation;
I really need to know. I’ve
run out of ways to fuel my
body to get it out the door
and off to work.
I’ve read that as people
age, they
tire of
food and
no longer
have the
desire to
sit down
to a meal
three
times a
day. I had
always
scoffed
at that
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Glvnn Moore
Columnist
glynn.moore@morris.com
- food is good, right? - but
I’m beginning to lose my
appetite for “the most
important meal of the day.”
What exactly are we sup
posed to eat in the morn
ing?
The dream meal of bacon,
eggs, toast, jelly, juice and
milk? By my count - and
my doctor’s - that’s two or
three meals. Who has time
to cook and eat all that,
anyway? Moreover, think of
all the fat, calories, choles
terol, sugar and sodium.
Breakfast bars are both
portable and tasty, but to
me they’re snacks, not one
third of a day’s nutrition. It
would take a box of them to
power me up for the morn
ing commute.
Oatmeal? Maybe, but
never during summer. Even
in cool months, I have to
think long and hard before
trying to tell my stomach
that something crunchless
can be filling.
Grits? See “oatmeal”
above. They are pretty
dull unless I can mix in
good helpings of butter,
cheese, chili or other heart
unhealthy ingredients.
DOBSON
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he will learn that he has
been misled, which could
undermine our relationship
and bring the entire adop
tion story under suspicion.
Instead, I would be
inclined to tell the child
that very little is known
about his biological parents.
Several inoffensive and
vague possibilities could
be offered to him: “We can
only guess at the reasons
the man and woman could
not raise you.
They may have been
extremely poor and were
unable to give you the
care you needed; or maybe
the woman was sick; or
she may not have had a
home. We just don’t know.
But there is one thing we
do know. She must have
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"The dream meal of bacon, eggs, toast,
jelly, juice and milk? By my count - and
my doctor's -that's two or three
meals."
There’s no time in the
morning to buy a sausage
and biscuit from a fast-food
joint, and those ready-made
from the frozen-food sec
tion taste better if you don’t
take them out of the box.
Nothing says belt-bulg
ing carbs better than pan
cakes or waffles, covered
with butter and syrup, but
they, too, are time-consum
ing: “Honey, I don’t suppose
you would get up and make
me some waffles? OK, OK,
don’t scream!”
Fruit? Sure, for a 100-
pound supermodel who
stands around all day. I
don’t meet any of those
requirements, though, and
fruit doesn’t meet mine.
Cereal has always been
my fall-back, but after
decades of stuffing puffs,
flakes and other forms of
grain into my mouth, I’ve
about lost my desire for it.
By my conservative
count, there are 39,452
varieties of cereal on the
store shelves, and I’ve tried
them all. (Cheerios alone
can be found in regular,
frosted, multigrain, straw
berry, banana, crunchy and
so forth.)
Then there are those
brands that contain raisins,
chocolate, marshmallows,
little bales of hay - you
name it.
When you get down to
it, though, a bowl of cereal
is nothing but calories and
carbohydrates sinking in
whole, 1 percent or 2 per
cent milk.
The past day or two,
I’ve been pouring creamed
loved you very, very much
enough to give you life
and to make sure you were
raised in a loving home
where you would be taken
care of. We’re so thankful
that the Lord led her to let
us raise you.”
QUESTION: I under
stand your emphasis on
a child being taught to
respect the authority of
his or her parents, but
doesn’t that coin have
two sides? Don’t parents
have an equal respon
sibility to show respect
for their children?
DOBSON: They certain
ly do! The self-concept of
a child is extremely frag
ile and must be handled
with great care. A young
ster should live in complete
safety at home, never being
belittled or embarrassed
deliberately, never pun
ished in front of friends,
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chipped beef, courtesy of
the frozen-food aisle, over
toast. I first tried it in the
Navy.
Anything that looks like
gravy, though, is automati
cally one button away from
a 911 call.
Morning wasn’t so tough
when I was young. We
didn’t know we lived in the
Stroke Belt, so breakfast on
the farm was an event: eggs
from the henhouse, fried
potatoes, milk gravy, hot
biscuits, sliced tomatoes.
Bacon, sausage or ham
- or even steak or fried
chicken - depending on
what had been sacrificed.
Cantaloupe, homemade
blackberry preserves, fried
peach or apple pies.
On a cold morning, a
favorite meal was “sugar,
biscuits and coffee,” named
for its ingredients: two bis
cuits opened on the plate,
sprinkled with sugar, soaked
with coffee and eaten with
a spoon.
Other days, my mother
might make us hot bowls of
“chocolate” - a gravy made
of cocoa, sugar and milk.
(Growing up in Louisiana,
my wife had called it “choc
olate syrup.”)
Breakfast was never so
good.
Since then, I’ve eaten cold
pizza in college, scrapple in
Maryland, fried meat pies
in Central America.
And now, what?
Food experts say it doesn’t
really matter what we eat
for the morning meal, so
long as we eat something.
Stupid experts, I say.
never ridiculed in a way
that is hurtful. His strong
feelings and requests, even
if foolish, should be con
sidered and responded to
politely. He should feel that
his parents “really do care
about me.”
My point is that respect is
the critical ingredient in all
human relationships, and
just as parents should insist
on receiving it from their
children, they are obligated
to model it in return.
Dr. Dobson is founder and
chairman of the board of
the nonprofit organization
Focus on the Family, P.O.
Box 444, Colorado Springs,
CO. 80903; or www.family.
org. Questions and answers
are excerpted from The
Complete Marriage and
Family Home Reference
Guide and Bringing Up
Boys, both published by
Tyndale House.
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One thing you didn’t want
to do with my Daddy was
kiss too long when he gave
permission to kiss the bride.
He frowned mightily on such
unseemly behavior. But other
than that, he was pretty good
and always quite dramatic
when he announced, “With
the power vested in me, I pro
nounce you man and wife.”
Oh, and another thing with
my daddy: He always insisted
that “obey” be included in
the vows.
One spunky woman said
she had nary a problem with
that.
Daddy smiled. He liked
women who obeyed.
She slung her head toward
HICKS
From page 4A
with special needs have
enrolled in more than 100
private schools. This is a
remarkable start for a revo
lutionary approach to educa
tion in Georgia.
But, of course, not every
one agrees that giving par
ents the option to choose
their child’s school is a
good thing. Opponents of
special needs scholarships,
or Utah’s more comprehen
sive school choice plan, are
quick to reject change. They
argue that much-needed
public school funding would
be depleted. But we have
been pouring money into
low-performing schools for
years.
If a school does not per
form well, what happens?
They get more money. That
doesn’t sound like an incen
tive for change to me. Some
say vouchers are just a way
to get rich kids more money,
but the research doesn’t bear
this out. Middle-to-upper
income families already have
choice because they have the
means to send their child to
a private school - or to move
to another district - if they
choose.
The status quo is easier
than change, but I believe it
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her betrothed. “I think he
should say it.”
Daddy’s smile faded.
Susan’s excitement over
her spontaneous wedding
reminded me of those sim
ple weddings and also made
me think of all the elabo
rate weddings I’ve attended
that cost more than my first
house. A few times, I have
seen women more excited
over the wedding than the
marriage.
The prettiest and most
touching wedding I’ve ever
seen included a shoeless wed
ding party and 15 guests.
As the orange-red sun slid
lazily, unhurried behind the
cliffs on Italy’s Amalfi coast,
the stunning blonde bride in
a lovely, thin-strapped dress
she had sewed herself saun
tered, barefooted, toward her
is unjust for poor students
to be trapped in poor-per
forming schools. When kids
do not get an adequate edu
cation, they are essentially
cut off from economic oppor
tunity resulting in a cycle
of poverty for families. Very
often this means they face
an uphill battle to achieve
success once they are an
adult.
Are we OK with this? It’s a
question responsible citizens
of Georgia must ask. For the
record, I am not OK with
it. We have a moral obliga
tion to care about the needs
of others, including children
and their future. Most kids
from low-income households
do not have a choice of where
they attend school. In effect
they are trapped.
Do we need to keep press
ing ahead to have the best
public schools in the coun
try? Absolutely. But we can’t
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beloved. He was dressed in
white linen slacks and a col
larless linen shirt that hung
loosely around his hips. His
bare toes twitched nervously
in the cool blades of grass.
When the priest pro
nounced them married, the
shimmering couple turned to
face their guests, each one
of us who, caught up in the
simple magic of the moment,
had tears glistening in our
eyes.
Love, like the scent of sea
air, hung heavy in the air. I
leaned over to whisper to a
friend, “Now, that’s amore.”
And it most surely was.
Ronda Rich is the best
selling author of What
Southern Women Know
(That Every Woman Should)
and The Town That Came
A-Courtin ’.
wait for reforms to kick in
before taking action that can
benefit kids immediately. In
other words, we must not
neglect the kids who are
dropping out in the short
term, bearing in mind that it
often takes years for educa
tion reform to bear fruit.
And, as you know, when
students drop out of school,
they are more likely to get
into trouble, creating a rip
ple effect in the communi
ty when crime goes up and
the eligible workforce goes
down.
Georgia Family Council
is a non-profit organization
that works to strengthen and
defend the family in Georgia
by equipping marriage advo
cates, shaping laws, prepar
ing the next generation and
influencing culture. For more
information, go to www.geor
giafamily.org, 770-242-0001,
stephen@gafam.org.
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