尼古拉斯（Nicholas）出生后，我的母亲发誓，她宁愿看到女儿成为耶和华见证人或钢管舞者，然后当我姐姐回去工作时，她在日托中看到了第一个孙子。我不认为最初是托儿所的想法并不适合她，而是在摇篮里是一个新鲜的板岩，一块粘土，可以努力并模制成一个完美的孩子，他们第一次与自己的女儿一起躲过了她。
(As soon as Nicholas was born, my mother swore she'd rather see her daughters become Jehovah's Witnesses or pole dancers before she saw her first grandchild in daycare when my sister went back to work. I don't think it was originally the idea of daycare that didn't sit well with her but the fact that there, in a bassinet, was a fresh slate, a lump of clay that could be worked on and molded into the perfect child who had eluded her the first time around with her own daughters.)
在摘录中，作者反思了母亲对托儿的强烈感受，尤其是日托。尼古拉斯（Nicholas）出生后，她的母亲对将孙子孙子送往日托的想法有很大的厌恶，这表明她会考虑极端的选择。这种反应似乎不仅源于日托本身的概念，而且还以更深入的渴望以她觉得自己没有与自己的女儿取得成就的方式塑造和影响孙子。
作者暗示她的母亲将日托视为她塑造这种新生活的能力的威胁，将其视为赎回的机会。使用诸如“新鲜石板”和“粘土团块”之类的术语传达了她母亲与孙子相关的控制和机会感，揭示了家庭动态，期望的复杂相互作用，以及灌输她想要的价值观和特征的希望。
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