She has got her children.
A relation between mother and child to-day is practically _never_ parental.

It is personal--which means, it is critical and deliberate, and adult in provocation.

The mother, in her new role of idealist and life-manager never, practically for one single moment, gives her child the unthinking response from the deep dynamic centers.

No, she gives it what is good for it.

She shoves milk in its mouth as the clock strikes, she shoves it to sleep when the milk is swallowed, and she shoves it ideally through baths and massage, promenades and practice, till the little organism develops like a mushroom to stand on its own feet.