words of wisdom 10-07-2012

I have been pondering over this saying that my late-grandfather RL use to say about listening and I hope I have translated this correctly: "How can you expect the children to listen when they have drank from the milk of a cow [since infancy] rather than from the breast milk of their own mother? It is only when the cow says 'listen', then, they will listen to the cow rather their mother's attempt to get their attention, without any hesitation."