Statistics

They say babies fall two thousand times
before they learn to walk. And that good moms
will let them fall without making a big deal
about it, without shrieking, without running over
every time to pick them up, see if they're all right.
 
These good moms will raise kids who are
confident, the kind who try new things
without being afraid to fail because, to them,
failing is just falling—and they’ve learned how
to pick themselves up
 
without shrieking, without making a big deal
about it, without needing anyone to run over
to see if they're all right. They say the average
adult has twelve to sixty thousand thoughts per day,
and that eighty percent of these are negative.
 
What's worse, ninety-five percent of our thoughts
are repetitive—the exact same things we thought
the day before. There are no current statistics
on how many of us are good moms, or even
how many of us are good but think we're bad.