They scold us for what we do, but so rarely tell us what we ought to do.

Tell me how to talk to my baby, and I am willing to try.

It is not as if I took a personal pride in the phrase: "Did ums." I did not even invent it.

I found it, so to speak, when I got here, and my experience is that it soothes the Child.

When he is howling, and I say "Did ums" with sympathetic intonation, he stops crying.