mommy knows best

mommy knows best a poem by
keith o'connor

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. After years of watching other parents and being a parent, who took a course in parenting. I finally got tired of those parents and the news papers who report on the "parents know what is best for their child" and decided to write this poem about what I have seen some parents do the their children. If you think this poem expresses the normal way to raise a child then you and your child both need psychiatric treatment.

mommy knows best

you can do it - if you try
I tried to do it
I can't do it
try harder you can do it
I tried
I can't do it
you don't want to do it
I do want to do it
if you really wanted to do it - you would do it
mommy I can't do it
if you loved me - you would do it
I love you mommy
prove you love me - do it
mommy I can't do it
then you don't love me
I love you mommy
if you don't love me - I won't love you
I love you mommy
I love you
how can you love me - if you won't do it
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I tried to do it mommy I tried to do it
mommy don't hate me
mommy I'm   so alone
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good - then - maybe you'll do it

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Keith O'Connor
aug 8 2001
Ottawa Canada
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