Meghan Cox Gurdon: Devise not evil against thy mother

If the Book of Proverbs were written today, two things are certain. One is that this portion of the Bible would contain far fewer references to vines and grapes. The other is that the authors would surely have included some cautionary axioms dealing with summer vacation at home.

I am thinking along the lines of “A vacationing child asketh too often for videos; a prudent parent assigneth duties around the home.”