The over-anxious mother by Christian at Work

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1879

The over-anxious mother.

By Christian at Work

Some of the most amiable women we know make their children's lives intolerable through their over-anxiety. Their everlasting fussing or fretting either annoys their families, or after a while is passed by with as little concern as the idle wind. Their very lovingness helps them to become chronic fault-finders, and their habitual interference, their perpetual cautions and their feminine fidgeting make them continual irritants. The anxious mother comes at last to be a blister rather than a blessing to her household. And her sons, having been used to hearing her complaints on occasions when complaint was not needed, cease to attend with proper respect when her counsels are good and wise.—Christian at Work.