This morning we want to celebrate children. What would life be without them?

The parents of one rowdy little fellow were trying to decide what to give him for his birthday. Dad suggested a bike.

"Do you think that perhaps that will improve his behavior?" Mom asked hopefully.

"I doubt it," Dad said realistically. "But at least it will spread it over a wider area." Children can be a pain, but they are also a pleasure. They look at life in such a different way.

Expecting her third child, one mother tells how her two children were suggesting names for the baby.

"Well, if it's a boy," said the oldest child, "can we name him John?"

"Maybe," said the mother.

"Well, if it's a girl," she went on, "can we name her Mary?"

"Maybe."

Finally, the youngest child, anxious to prove her intelligenc…