Howard K. Smith, the well known newscaster, said that his daughter was not at all impressed by his fame. Even though he had interviewed presidents, and had a nationwide listening audience, she was uni...
A mother and a daughter are shopping in the mall, when the mother eyes an expensive fur coat. "This year," she says, "I think that I will buy my present instead of making you and dad shop for me." The...
Herb Miller used to tell a story about a man whose daughter was applying to an Ivy League school. In a questionnaire sent by the school, he was asked if his daughter was a leader. He answered honestly...
A wonderful little story is making the rounds: It was almost time for school to dismiss and a mother noticed it looked like rain. So she drove toward school to pick up her eight-year-old daughter. S...
A mother and a daughter are shopping in the mall when the mother eyes an expensive fur coat. "This year," she says, "I think I will buy my present instead of making you and Dad shop for me."...
Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke...
The lady took her 5-year-old daughter shopping with her. The little girl watched her mother try on one outfit after another....
The husband was an older student, which didn't leave much money for our family of seven. One day while attending a friend's wedding, the 4-year-old daughter was sitting next to the mom when the pastor...
Robert Kopp tells about the woman who was walking with her young daughter. The little girl picked up something from the ground and started to put it in her mouth, but the mother told her to throw it a...
Back in 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of such classics as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped, gave a rather odd gift to the daughter of a friend of his. This friend, Henry Ide, once joked th...
As a mother was walking with her 4-year-old daughter, the girl picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth, and Mom told her not to do that. ...
As a mother was walking with her 4-year-old daughter, the girl picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth, and Mom told her not to do that. "Why?" she asked. "Becaus...
After church one Sunday morning, a mother commented, "The choir was awful thismorning." The father commented, "The sermon was too long." Their 7-year-old daughter added, "You've got to admit, Dad, it ...
"I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me. One night she said she was ready to solo....
Dad loved the outdoors, and because of his passion for hunting and fishing, the family ate a considerable amount of wild game. One evening as Dad set a platter of broiled venison steaks on the dinner ...
"I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me. One night she said she was ready to solo. I listened with pride a...
Recently Lynn Johnston's "For Better or For Worse" comic strip depicted the father changing all the clocks. When his little daughter asks why, he explains carefully that putting the clocks ahead gives...
In the Middleton’s comic strip by Dunagin and Summers, little Wendie is getting ready to pray. Her mother says, “Time for prayers Wendie.” Wendie declares, “I’m going to pray for my friends.” Her m...
In Elysa Gardner's USA Today tribute to Richard Rogers, she tells a story that gives us a clue to his extraordinary success in musical theater. She relates comments made by Rogers' eldest daughter Mar...
Several months ago a tornado struck the small town of Piedmont, Alabama. Twenty people were killed. Most of them were inside the Goshen United Methodist Church at the time. Among those killed was the ...