This refers to mothers needing personal time for themselves and needing to do things that may not benefit the child but allow the mother some time of peace and cause no harm to the child. This quote shows the complexity of maternal expectations and that mothers need to be able to have their own time when possible. An example of this is an overactive child when mothers put them to sleep to allow them a brief time to themselves. That being said little harm done.

Anything different than ones standard norms can be seen and quickly judged very badly. Like the canabalism that the native Americans were doing yet had a police system. This can been seen as savage by those cultures who do not eat humans however for them it is completely normal and they were raised to do it so it was never seen as something bad. This aligns with the annotations because this sentance shows how from one angle a culture can be seen as savage but still have set rules. To look at everything with different angles to see all of a cultures pros and cons.