The mother who feeds her child without making the least effort to teach him how to hold a spoon for himself and to try to find his mouth with it, and who does not at least eat herself, inviting the child to look and see how she does it, is not a good mother She offends the fundamental human dignity of her child; she treats the child as if he or she were a doll, when instead, this is a human being confided by nature to her care.
