Useless mother i am..

I was talking to one of my staff the other day. She is a mother of four lovely boys.

She told me that the night before her 2 year-old son woke her up at 2 am and said,
"Mummy, i want an egg"..

So what she did was that she woke up, boiled an egg and gave it to her son. At 2 o'clock in the morning.

What would I have done in the same instance? I would tell my son to go back to bed and sleep. And if he starts crying, I'd probably raise my voice and put him outside the room to cry on his own till he stops.

Damn i feel so useless. There is still so much patience and motherly compassion that i need to muster.