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Mommies, you bastards

From anonymous comments posted in June on the message board of UrbanBaby.com, a website for parents. The term “dc” is shorthand for “darling child.”

Just read a wonderful poem by Sylvia Plath and wanted to share here. It is about a mother’s wishes for her son. “I do not will him to be exceptional./It is the exception that interests the devil./It is the exception that climbs the sorrowful hill/Or sits in the desert and hurts his mother’s heart./I will him to be common,/To love me as I love him,/And to marry what he wants and where he will.” (From “Three Women,” 1962)

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SEE ALSO: Child rearing; Computer network resources; Criticism and interpretation; Electronic discussion groups; Family; Family relationships; Parenting; Plath, Sylvia; Women poets, American

Response: October 2009, page 5

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