The Perfect Mother (Repost)

The Perfect Mother

Today, Mother's Day, I'm going to blog about the perfect mother. 

Most mothers, both real and fictional, are not perfect; they

make mistakes from time to time.  Not even Mrs. March

in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was perfect.

The following is taken from one of my older posts:

Remember the chapter called "Jo Meets Apollyon," where
Amy burned the book Jo had worked on for several years
because Jo wouldn't let her come to the theater with her 
and Meg and Laurie?

Jo was, of course, furious with Amy... just as I would have been,
 just as almost anybody would have been.

But how did Mrs. March, Marmee, handle the situation?
"Mrs. March came home, and, having heard the story, 
soon brought Amy to a sense of the wrong she had done her sister."
That's it.  We never find out just how she "brought Amy to a
sense of the wrong she had done her sister."  We never learn
what Marmee said to Amy.

Mrs. March, in fact, seemed much more concerned about Jo's very
 understandable anger than about Amy's deliberate, vindictive 
destruction of Jo's property.

If I were a mother, I'm sure that I would not be perfect either.
For example, I might scold or punish a child undeservedly, or

too severely.  On the other hand, I might "look the other way"

when I ought to exercise some parental discipline.

In all the history of the world, there has been only one perfect Mother.