<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Practice v Theory for The Grandmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mother croons soft lullabies<br> but still her fretful baby cries<br>He has been fed and topped and tailed.<br> But everything she tries has failed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will not sleep although he should<br>It is as if he understood<br> his mother lacks experience<br> and cannot tell the difference.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between distress and cussedness<br>Her baby’s trying to impress<br>on mother that he will not do.<br>As his mother wants him to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Grandma’s made of sterner stuff.<br>She knows her daughter’s had enough.<br>She bids her daughter go and rest<br> and she will show that she knows best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She gently rocks him to and fro<br> he has no choice he has to go<br>. and soon he’s sleeping peacefully.<br>Another little victory</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> for grandmama’s old fashioned ways.<br>which she has had since younger days.<br> When she too lacked experience<br> but was not short of common sense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His mother heeds the experts view.<br>But grandmas know a thing or two<br>The child care experts of today<br> are mainly childless any way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They may be college qualified<br>but haven’t had their patience tried.<br>By a babes refusal to<br> do what the books say he should do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12-Apr-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414434" data-title="Practice v Theory for The Grandmas de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="A mother croons soft lullabies but still her fretful baby cries He has been fed and topped and tailed. But everything she tries has failed. He will not sleep although he should It is as if he understood his mother lacks experience and cannot ..."></div> </div> </div>

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