Early one morning my mother felt a pushing inside her. The pushing stopped, then it started. It stopped and started, stopped and started again. Each time the pushing became stronger. My mother knew...
Waiting to be born
I had a lot of growing to do before I would be ready to be born. The egg and the sperm which had joined to make my life found a waiting place in which to grow. The waiting place was the uterus in my...
Before I was born
Where was I before I was born? I was warm and safe inside my mother's body, in a special place beneath her stomach. I was there because my mother and my father loved each other and wanted me. This is...
My navel
In the middle of my belly is a mark. It is my navel. Sometimes I call it my "belly- button." I used to wonder why it was there. Now I know. In the months before I was born, I lived inside my mother....
My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
A Russian folk tale retold by Becky Reyher > Once upon a time, long, long ago, when the harvest season had come > again in the Ukraine, the villagers were all busy cutting and > gathering the wheat....
For someone I love
Mother's Day Even though you can show how much you love your mother on any day, a special day is set aside to honor mothers. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, Mother's Day is the second...
Manohar’s religion
Brrr! Manohar shivers as his mother pours water over him. He is standing outside his house in the village of Amtala, India, and the morning air is cold on his bare skin. But he must bathe first thing...
What’s cooking?
In China, Wang Kow watches his mother make dinner. She pours some peanut oil into a big, round, metal bowl called a wok. The wok sits on top of a small charcoal stove. As the oil gets hot, it begins...
The biggest family of all
> An Ashanti family has a meal in the mother's house. The father lives > in another house. How would you like to have many mothers, many fathers, and lots of brothers and sisters? Impossible? Not...
A green sprout and a rainbow
It was springtime in Japan, and Sayuri was glad. The cherry trees were in bloom and the warm air was filled with their fragrance. It really is wonderful, thought Sayuri, how everything seems to come...
