There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Interpretation
Even the most cherished children can be a handful, exhausting their parents despite their love.
This quote highlights the complex emotions experienced by parents, particularly mothers, towards their children. It emphasizes that while a child may be loved and adored for their beauty and innocence, the challenges of parenting, such as the difficulties in getting them to sleep, can be overwhelming. It serves as a reminder that love and exhaustion can coexist within the parent-child relationship.
In practice
This quote could be used in a parenting seminar to discuss the realities of motherhood.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.
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I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.
My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
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