She wanted him to pick those she had found while she hunted for more in the meantime.

The mother was very busy keeping an eye on them all.

Kurt might become too daring in his climbing feats.
Maezli might run away too far and Lippo might put his strawberries into his trousers-pocket as he had done once already, and cause great harm to his little Sunday suit.
"You fuss and worry too much about the children," Uncle Philip said.
"Just let the children simply grow, saying to them once in a while, 'If you don't behave, you'll be locked up.'" "Yes, that certainly sounds simple," said his sister.

"It is a pity you have no brood of your own to bring up, Philip, as lively as mine, and each child entirely different from the others, so that one has to be urged to a thing that another has to be kept from.

I get the cares without looking for them.