Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

For the first time, I, Rachel, am posting a review to the review board! I just have to say a few words about this dear little book by Betty MacDonald! For those of you unfamiliar with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, she is the lady in a small town in northern America who loves children and always has children playing at her house. Whenever a parent is having a particular difficulty with a child, and they don't know what to do, the parent calls up Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who has a chest full of all sorts of remedies for a child's unpleasant or unacceptable habits.

Mrs. Semicolon, the most recently troubled parent, ended the last chapter we've read saying about her, "There goes the most wonderful little person in the whole world." And to Mrs. Semicolon there was no doubt that she was, becuase, you see, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cured her dear Nicholas of being the school bully!

The first story in the book is about Philip Carmody. He is a constant show-off. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's "Show-off Powder" does the trick in curing him, since the powder makes him invisible when he shows off. The next story was about Melody Foxglove who is an incessant cry-baby. All that was needed to cure her was some of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's CRYBABY TONIC. Then of course, Nicholas Semicolon needed Leadership Pills to help his heart and mind even out with his big, strong body.

Of course, it's ridiculous, but it's so endearing somehow. And the children sit on my lap completely engrossed in the stories. If only it was as easy as calling Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to help you guide the precious life entrusted to you. Thankfully, we do have God's Word and prayer and a multitude of friends and family that also love our children, even when they misbehave or have a nasty attitude or break things or hit other children, or whatever infraction they may commit. I guess the point is that children will be children and we must seek wisdom daily, and never be too busy, to deal with their childishness, because soon they will be grown up.