Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.