Welcome to "Time for a Cuppa". This page is for you. It has no set format.
From time to time it will cover serious topics and be an information page.
Other times it will carry "feel good" messages designed to make you feel
better about your day, your life, your family, anything. Others times it
will carry poetry or prose. It is simply a page that you might like to visit
for something interesting to read or to have a laugh. It is a "time out for
you" spot. So, now that you have your cup of tea or coffee ready, sit back
and enjoy.
| THE WAY CHILDREN SEE THINGS
NUDITY
 I was driving
with my three young children one summer evening when a woman in the convertible
ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked!!! I was horrified at
what my children might be thinking when my 5 year old shouted out from the
back seat, "Look Mum, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt"
HONESTY
 My son, Zachary,
4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me that he'd dropped his toothbrush
into the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the rubbish. Zachary
stood there, thinking for a moment, and then came out holding my toothbrush.
He held it up with a charming smile and said "We'd better throw this one
out to then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago!"
TOMATO SAUCE
 A mother was trying
hard to get the last of the tomato sauce out of its' container. During the
struggle, the phone rang, so she asked her 4 year old daughter to answer
it. "It's the minister, Mummy", the child said to her mother. Then she added
"Mommy can't come to the phone right now. She's hitting the bottle."
THE ELDERLY
 Whilst working
for an organization which delivered meals to the elderly, I used to take
my 4 year old daughter on the afternoon rounds. She was always intrigued
by the world of the elderly; the wheelchairs, walking sticks etc. One day
I found her standing, amazed, looking at a set of false teeth soaking in
a glass. As I braced myself for the usual barrage of questions, she merely
turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"
NUDITY
 A little boy got
lost within the rooms of the YMCA, and accidentally entered the women's locker
room. When he was spotted there was pandemonium, with shrieks, and women
running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked "What's
the matter, haven't you seen a little boy before?"
GOING OUT
 A little girl
watched as her parents were getting dressed up for a party. When she saw
here Dad donning his Tuxedo, she warned him, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear those
clothes." "Why's that darling?" he replied. "You know that it always gives
you a headache the next morning" she answered.
THE BIBLE
 A little boy was
opening the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the
old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the bible. He picked the object
up and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been placed between
the pages for pressing, and long since been forgotten. "Mama, look what I've
found", the boy called out excitedly. "What's that dear?" The excited reply
was quick to follow. "I've got hold of Adam's underwear!!"
SCHOOL
 A little girl
had just finished her first week of school, so her Mother inquired how it
had been. "Terrible", was the reply. "A whole week, and I can't read, I can't
write, and they won't even let me talk!"
AND FINALLY…………..ONE FROM THE MOTHERS.
 On the first day
of school a child handed his new teacher a note from his parents. The note
read…."The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those
of his parents" |
| THE MOUSETRAP
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife
open a package.
"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to
discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed
the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in
the house!"
 The chicken clucked
and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a
grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered
by it."
 The mouse turned
to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap
in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse,
but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my
prayers."
 The mouse turned
to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap
in the house! "The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's
no skin off my nose. I'm too busy with my own affairs"
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound
of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was
caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail
the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her
to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat
a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbours came to sit
with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her
funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all
of them.
 The mouse looked
upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't
concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out
for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
(Story care of Mental Berocca, the Radio Network, Hawke's Bay) |
THE BANK ACCOUNT
Imagine that there is a bank that credits your account every morning with
$86 400. It carries over no balance from the day before, and every evening
it deletes whatever part you failed to use that day. What would you do???
You would make use of every last cent of course. Well, each of us has such
a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86 400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever you have failed to invest wisely.
It carries over no balance.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed his exams
To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has just given birth to a premature baby
To realize the value of ONE WEEK
Ask the editor of a weekly newspaper
To realize the value of ONE DAY
Ask someone who has just become married
To realize the value of ONE HOUR
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask the person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND
Ask the person who just narrowly missed hitting another car.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND
Ask the person who just won the Silver Medal in the Olympics.
To realize the value of ONE NANOSECOND
Ask a NASA scientist.
Time is something we can all offer our children, no matter how rich or poor
we are. And you know, spending time with your children, "just because" is
great therapy for parents too. |
TODAYS THOUGHT…
"Every journey of 1000 miles begins with just one step"
If you have a journey or goal, at it seems a long way away, just take that
first step and it will be one step closer to you. |
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