"When Mothers Flip Out"

I imagine most parents have been there. (Meg Gurdon, 12/18.)

Some mothers are alert to every twinge their children experience, and have the pediatrician on speed-dial.  Others pay almost no attention in the vague belief that most complaints don’t amount to much.  These last (ahem) only begin paying attention when the symptoms have mounted, and then they panic, usually on a Friday night.