That is not what I aim to do.

I seek, with intenseness of purpose, to show the folly, the absurdity of the anxieties, the worries, the unnecessary and unreasonable cares of many mothers.

For the moment Fear takes possession of them, some kind of nagging is sure to begin for the child.

"Oh, Tom, you mustn't do this," or, "Maggie, my darling, you must be careful of that," and the child is not only nagged, but is thus _placed under bondage to the mother's unnecessary alarm_.

No young life can suffer this bondage without injury.