Peekaboo II

Changing the outlook to change the perception.


So the nurse had this question, looking at the one hand at the neglected but physically healthy children, who had been sent to hospital to be coddled up again, and at the other hand at the mother desperately singing to her chronically ill son:"Why do the good parents get the sickly children and the bad ones the healthy?"

And I replied:"If it had been the other way around, the children would have been dead by now."

Seeing my point it kind of consoled her.