Your education has not been of that kind to form solid, substantial characters, therefore you have to obtain now the education which you should have had years ago. Your mother was too fond of you. A mother cannot love her children too well, but she may love unwisely and allow her affection to blind her to their best interests. You have had an indulgent, tender mother. She has shielded her children too much. Her life has been nearly crushed out by the burdens which her children should have taken, and which they could have borne better than she. {3T 43.2}

Din opdragelse har ikke været af den slags der danner en fast og solid karakter, derfor må du nu have den oplæring som du skulle have haft for år siden. Din mor har været for glad for dig. En mor kan ikke elske sine børn for meget, men hun kan elske dem på en uklog måde og lade sin kærlighed forblinde hende til hendes egne interesser. Du har haft en føjelig (44) og nænsom mor. Hun har beskyttet sine børn for meget. Hendes liv er næsten mast ned af byrder som hendes børn skulle tage og som de kunne have båret bedre end hun.