Mothers Make a Difference

These two stories came from a devotional book that I borrowed from my mom's house when I went there the last time.

*A partially deaf boy came home from school one day carrying a note from officials at the school.  The note suggested that the parents take the boy out of school, claiming that he was "too stupid to learn."
The boy's mother read the note and said, "My son Tom isn't 'too stupid to learn.' I'll teach him myself."  And so she did.
When Tom died many years later, the people of the United States of America paid tribute to him by turning off the nation's lights for one full minute.  You see, this Tom had invented the light bulb-- and not only that, but motion pictures and the record player.  In all, he had more than one thousand patents to his credit.  

** The name Albert Einstein is synonymous with that of "genius."  Many don't know, however, that Einstein was a late talker.  His parents grew quite worried about this.  Then, at supper one night, he broke his silence with a full sentence, saying, "The soup is too hot."  Overjoyed, his greatly relieved parents asked him why he hadn't spoken before.  He said, "Because up to now everything was in order."