Overbearing love in the beloved, secrets and lies Children are protected from evil in the world by their parents, especially their mothers. A passage written by Kahilil Girbran, The Prophet, explains a vision of the parent/child relationship. "And a woman holding a child close to her breast said, Speak to us of children. And he said, Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's desire for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they do not belong to you You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams strive to be like them, but do not try to make them like you. For life does not go backwards nor carry the past with you. You are the bows from which your children are shot like living arrows. The archer sees the mark on the path of the infinite and tends you with his power so that his arrows can go fast and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be of joy; for just as He loves the arrow that flies, so also He loves the bow that is stable. "-Kahlil Girbran (17-18)Girbran's view of childhood is very good. written. He explains to parents in what place their children have their own thoughts and feelings. Their children are with them all their lives, but children belong to their own life. During childhood the love in the family can be very strong. The bond between mother and child is almost unbreakable. It is amazing that a person was produced and lived inside a body for nine months. The parents they are described as “the bows from which your children are shot like living arrows”. (Gibran, 17 years old) Their job is to raise children to the best of their ability until they are old enough to be on their own never let anything bad happen to their children. Sometimes they can't let their children grow up like others. They are very overprotective and want to isolate the child from danger. Both in the film Secrets and Lies and in Toni Morrison's book, Love , the overprotective mothers are key characters.