Marks Linda Pastan

I think this poem is very reasonable and true. Sometimes, you just get so caught up with people's critiques and that just puts you in a bad mood. In this poem, the author gets caught up with all the critiques from her family eveyday.In the begining of the poem, her husband starts to critique her cooking and her daugther with that she is just and "OK" mom, and her son that she is just an average mom. I agree with her that people critique too much and really don't see the good part of life. When it comes to critiques, I think that people should really look at the posiive parts first and then look at the critiques and tell them in a nice manner. People need to lear that by criticzing, it just hurts peole more emotionally.