You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child, and he will be wonderful again.
It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.