Funny,Not So Funny, Pleasant And Not So Pleasant Quotes About Mothers

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Sunday was Mothers Day and there were many, many posts and articles about mothers. I am sharing some interesting excerpts-

Mothers - you are messed up without them and you are messed up with them as well!

Mother daughter tie is precarious and precious - religious admonitions and cultural teachings demand the utmost respect; while ground reality can have one tearing one’s hair. You are ‘supposed’ to be respectful all the time and yet… yet the nagging, the scolding, the million questions, and the countless I told you so’s. The result - gut-wrenching guilt with oodles of confusion thrown in.

A boy whose mother passed away several years ago, talks about the time he was constantly arguing with his mother about (what now seems) a trivial issue. In a fit of frustration she threw a hanger at him. After which they both started laughing. This moment remains etched in his memory, “I miss her, there is no one who now dares throw hangers at me.”

A group of men were asked-‘Who is the most important person in your life’. Majority of the men said it was their mother. However, getting anything out of the men about mothers was a Herculean task!

The thing about being a parent is that, no matter what philosophy or school of responsible parenting you follow, it always seems that your child - and yours alone - is the anomaly who refuses to respond to conventional wisdoms. In other words, you can follow Dr Spock or your nani, be new-age or old-fashioned, experimental or conservative … it really doesn’t matter, because as far as your child is concerned, you’ll end up having to make it up as you go along.

Yes, I am turning into my mother and the worst part is I can’t do anything about it. Or maybe that’s the best part…

Most females revealed that their relationship with their mother is exactly the same. It’s a mixture of love, hate, affection, need, expectation, and many, many moments of manic, screaming lunacy.

Emotional blackmail was invented by mothers. I guarantee you, no man — be he father, brother or significant other — can make you feel so small and so… worthless, as can that one look from the woman who carried you in her womb. Forget to offer a cup of tea while brewing some for yourself and you will never hear the end of it. She may not remember her own cell phone number, but she will never, ever, ever forget — or let you forget — what you said at X o’ clock one evening Y number of years ago when you were a Z year-old teenager with typical delusions of rebellion.

If you believe for one minute that the title ‘supermom’ aims to compliment your abilities as a care-giver, you are living in a fool’s paradise. The simple fact is that they have invented this niche for women who are expected to do everything in life and not demand any pampering in return.

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