There isn’t a single day that I don’t question my abilities as a parent. And when these mothers start reflecting on their issues and doubts — yeah, that struck a nerve. But when their kids start saying what they really think about momma bear? I. Was. A. Total. Wreck.
There's a lot of pressure being a parent. We want to raise our children the right way, but there is no definitive handbook for every difficult situation and we're bound to make mistakes along the way. For most of us, we're our own biggest critic.
But what do the people who matter most think? How do our children see us? For Mother's Day this year, we did an experiment asking moms to describe themselves, and then compared that with what their own kids said about them. It's amazing what you can see when you look from a different perspective.
The Video Every Mom Must Watch On Repeat
Until... She... Gets It
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"I struggle with my temper."
"I wish I was better at taking time to sit down with my child."
"I wish I was more confident."
Sound familiar? Motherhood comes with doubts. From the moment you hold your first baby at the hospital, and wonder if you've got her cradled the right way to the day your child calls from college with all the questions. There is no map. We're raising little humans here, and it is scary. And some days, the only voice in your head is the one screaming, You don't know what you're doing.
Except you do.
The women in this video were asked a simple question -- to describe themselves as mothers. They expressed those concerns listed above. Then, their kids answered. It's like when Dove had women listen to what other people remember about their faces, only it's not selling soap and is just about parenting (which really isn't a "just" at all).
Press play. Send it to all the mamas you know. Most importantly, believe it.
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50 Quotes on Mothers
May 4, 2012
Touching, funny, and provoking quotes about moms and mothering
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie
for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
- Tenneva Jordan
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs
in my field, since the payment is pure love.
- Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once,
and by car forever after.
- Peter De Vries
The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers,
but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
- Pearl S. Buck
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honoré de Balzac
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
- Spanish Proverb
She never quite leaves her children at home,
even when she doesn't take them along.
- Margaret Culkin Banning
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.
A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.
Everything gets reduced to essentials.
- Meryl Streep
In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition
and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could.
If I have done anything in life worth attention,
I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
- Booker T. Washington
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
- Lisa Alther
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child.
They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean?
In my heart it don't mean a thing.
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future
but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- Honoré de Balzac
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
- Isadora Duncan
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Erich Fromm
I miss thee, my Mother!
Thy image is still the
deepest impressed on my heart.
-Eliza Cook
a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
- James Joyce
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me,
but I think she rather enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to
- George Washington
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box
has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes
from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
- Erma Bombeck
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?"
it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no.
You're going to get it anyway.
- Erma Bombeck
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
- George Eliot
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
- Ambrose Bierce
If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
- Ferrell Sims
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege,
but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for
- Rebecca West
The best way to keep children home is to make the home
atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
No matter how old a mother is, she watches
her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic.
It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this
very love must help the child grow away from the mother,
and to become fully independent.
- Erich Fromm
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill
Mothers are all slightly insane.
- J.D. Salinger
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford.
Then I want to move in with them.
- Phyllis Diller
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs...
since the payment is pure love.
- Mildred B. Vermont
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child,
I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
- Nancy Friday
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.'
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking;
it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
- Helen Rice
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
- Diana, Princess of Wales
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not
have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though
I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
- Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think
whatever else you do well matters very much.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- H.W. Beecher
The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
- W. R. Wallace
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