Eight Ways to Teach Your Children to Work

My mother came from a relatively well to do home where they had two maids and a butler. And she married a poor man, and they were missionaries for the first five years of their married life. We lived in a double at what we called a double house in germantown on washington lane. That house is still there. It's an entirely black neighborhood. But somehow my parents always manage to be hospitable. They didn't have extra money to buy fancy food for company. All we could do was maybe put a little bit more water in the soup and a couple of extra potatoes in the pot or put an extra chair at the table. The bible commands us to be