The unmarried are universally aghast. How could a mother kill her child for not reciting his numbers ???!!!!
The parents all shudder involuntarily. But for chance it could be them in the news.
So. Before we have kids we can't imagine such a thing happening. Our sense of proportion and righteousness all are intact.
Once you are a parent and you find yourself embroiled in a power struggle with a small person,all sense of time and space fall away and that one moment becomes all that ever was ever and is. And in that one cosmic moment in that whole universe there are only two people you. And your nemesis. the small person who opposes you. And you want to control him. Get him to do what is good for him. Why won't he understand. Food he needs for nourishment. Numbers and letters to be someone in this world! sleep by bedtime so he would be well rested for the next day. And there in that microcosmic world filled with good righteous intentions we lose all sense of proportion and we do it. And forever can't take away the one moment we forgot ourselves.
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