From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
The fifth commandment says that, “Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother.” Well, my father is very nice and everyone says that my mother was too, so I guess I can do that. It is easy to honor someone who is nice, but it is hard to honor a mother like Margaret Tadich has. Margaret’s face is always dirty and her dress is always dirty and Miss Cashen is always giving her a handkerchief to wipe her nose. They say that her mother gets drunk and so does her father, and when she comes home from school in the afternoon no one is home, and most of the time she has to go to bed with a piece of bread and butter because her mother doesn’t come home to cook dinner for her. I don’t think God wants you to honor a mother like that. He can’t want you to be stupid.