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NURSE  NUTRITION
  NURTURE
MOTHER  EDUCATE
      
Here we focus on ideas about MOTHER and those about NURSE NURTURE and NUTRITION. This review is a follow-up to those dealing with BIRTH, MATERialization of MATERnity and motherhood. In another overview we explored MILK and MILKing.
   

   Mythic Marriages

   

SIPping SUPper in a land of "milk and honey".

Most adult mothers NURSe and NURTure NATURally, an idea sustained by the roots of these words.

Divine Wet Nurse

MOTHER is an idea rooted in NATALITY which points to NAIVE, NATIVE, NATION, NATIVISM, and NATIONALISM. Also note NATA, which in Spanish has to do with cream and milk.
 

Controlling Divine Babies

  

Early Nurturing

Charity and Population
Growth

NURSe and NURTure point to NATure from which two meanings emerge concurrently - NATality or to beget and to know - and more distantly KINdle, KINder, and kin. The ultimate roots of NURTURE, NATURE and NATIVE are in GEN pointing to GENE, GENESIS and GENETICS. 

 

Divine Nurse Nursing

Mammals start their NUTRITION by NURSING or SUCKING NUTRIENTS mostly by breast feeding. Note that NUTRIO also means to educate. As infants grow, they also get educated and expand their NUTRITIO.

After infants learn to SIP on SOAKed foods, they can eat SOUPs for SUPper. As infants SUCK, SIP and IMBIBE larger volumes of SAP or juices, they tend "to be wet" due to profuse urination. Note that NURICE, NURT, and NYRKA in French and Ukrainian link "WET NURSE" with stream and KIDNEY. Adults, according to some views, are those who can NURTURE the NATURE of another and in vernacular adults are "all wet" when they childish ideas.

  

Bundle of Joy

Charming each other

SAVVY nurses know that NATURALLY SAPID foods NURTURE better that inSIPid alternatives. Savvy and SAVANTS point to SOAP and SAPonines which help to SOAK babies to clean their skin. Mothers achieve this by SOAKing babies in waters softened by SOAP or other SAPonines.

Only few SAVVY children will become SAVANTS but, everybody should learn how to SAVOR life and how to be SCIENT, that is, knowledgeable and conscientious. In this regard, perhaps the advice by Marcus Aurelius  needs stressing since adults who wish to nurture another should ...

"Constantly regard the Universe 
as one living being
having one substance and one soul ..." 

     

Nurturing  families


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