PracticeV Theory

story poem

 

Practice v Theory

 

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 tell the difference.

 

Between distress and cussedness

Her baby’s trying to impress

on mother that he will not do.

As his mother wants him to.

 

But Grandma’s made of sterner stuff.

She knows her daughter’s had enough.

She bids her daughter go and rest

 and she will show that she knows best.

 

She gently rocks him to and fro

 he has no choice he has to go

. and soon he’s sleeping peacefully.

Another little victory

 

 for grandmama’s old fashioned ways.

which she has had since younger days.

 When she too lacked experience

 but was not short of common sense

 

His mother heeds the experts view.

But grandmas know a thing or two

The child care experts of today

 are mainly childless any way.

 

They may be college qualified

but haven’t had their patience tried.

By a babes refusal to

 do what the books say he should do.

 

12-Apr-08