OK, in a sense, moms do run the world, pretty much from behind the scenes. When you think about it, though, part of Sarah Palin's appeal was that she had the experience and, presumably, common sense that moms approach life with. If someone would approach the presidency with mom-sense, we could straighten up the economy and everything else in no time at all.

For example:

• If you don't share with others, I'm going to take it away from you could apply quite nicely in our current economic crisis. Banks were refusing to lend money to anyone, choosing to hoard their reserves. So what did our government do? Give them more money. If my kid is hoarding his toys and not sharing with others, I'm not about to give him more toys. What if someone put all the bank executives in a "time out" of sorts? Or told them that if they didn't share with others, then they were going to lose their accreditation (or whatever), then I bet they'd behave differently very quickly.
• If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all would certainly change political campaigning, wouldn't it?!
• Be kind to others, especially those less fortunate than yourself. This could take care of the entire debate between "trickle-down" and "middle-class first" economic policies. The great flaw in trickle-down policies (in my opinion) is that it doesn't take into account the power of greed - those who earn more will generally keep more. But what if we changed the tax code to take away tax shelters for the wealthy and instead rewarded them with significant tax breaks for charitable giving? It seems to me that we'd see a lot more charitable foundations set up to help the needy and less need for the government to step in and act like Robin Hood.

What else? I bet some of you moms have great ideas about how to change the world and would do a better job running the country than most of the people in charge now. But we're all pretty busy running our own households after all!