Just recently I remembered that this is what my mother was telling to me as a child whenever I did not feel like doing something that I should. I just stopped now and realised how insidious this was. "Force yourself!" She would not say "you should do...

I just realized what effects the efforts of my mother can have on the emotional development of the child that she has been raising. I saw her interact with a 5 year old child of my cousin. The kid had been crying so loud that we could not continue ou...