"I don't think that being a strong person is about ignoring your emotions and fighting your feelings. Putting on a brave face doesn't mean you're a brave person. That's why everybody in my life knows everything that I'm going through. I can't hide anything from them. People need to realise that being open isn't the same as being weak."

- Taylor Swift

Thursday, September 22, 2011

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

A mother gives her child medicine and tells him to suck it up. This is the harsh mother.

A mother gives her child sugar and waits 'until he grows up' for the medicine. This is the spoiling mother.

A mother coaxes, begs, threatens, bribes her child to take medicine, to no avail. This is the weak mother.

A mother gives her child neither sugar nor medicine. This is the bad mother.

A mother gives her child a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. This is the good mother.

1 comment:

Adelaide Dupont said...

Reminds me rather too much of Heinz and his medicinal dilemma.

(Should he steal from the drug company to give the medicine to his terminally ill wife?).

And of course it applies to rather more than sugar and medicine.

There could be an argument that the mother who doesn't give sugar or medicine is ... not such a bad mother.

(What does the kid think? They're the one who matters).