Happy Mother’s Day. Thank your mom (and dad) for your existence.
Wasn’t it 48 years ago...? 1973...
Being a mother is the absolute most difficult job there is. That’s because it is the most important job we will ever do. Happy Mother’s Day and God Bless.
I think of my great great great grandmother, on the plains of West Texas, husband gone off to the Civil War, 4 kids, Indian attacks, diseases unchecked, no communication, lack of food, water, support and they all survived it. Tough times now, oh yea.
And thanks Mom, sorry about all the trouble and worry I caused, the good news is you only know about half of it.
Rd later.
I think being a mom was a bit too much for Lynn Cheney, considering how her daughters turned out (Liz Cheney and Mary Cheney).
Keep in mind: It’s easy to be a mother, but not easy to be a parent. Thanks, Mom. Also, thanks Dad...you two were a fantastic team and that made for great parents!
38 years ago? This is a big problem on the Right. No, Roe v. Wade was 48 years ago. The America you remember was longer ago than you might think in many ways.
The column is solid beyond that. When you have children your life is not over. That messaging is constant in popular culture with essentially nothing to counter it. Whoring around in bars and hooking up with people on “dating apps” might be over. Adding to your collection of STD’s might be over. Being drunk and high all the time might be over. Life is just beginning. THIS is the meaning and authenticity these young people claim to be seeking.
Women are having fewer children than ever. They are also less happy than ever. Sitting in a cubicle moving numbers around on an Excel spreadsheet while plotting which boss to have an affair with (and how best to sue for sexual harassment when he doesn’t leave his wife) vs. raising children. Men have similar horrible messaging directed at them by the same people.
Feminism is poison. It is a weapon that has been used to destroy the family structure. You’ve come a long way, baby.
We have medication now so we can avoid coping
It is hard to be a Mom when you have a full time job outside of the home, society expects women in their 50s to look 25, the schools are countervailing normal traditional values with junk science and fake woke virtues, and creepy crap is available with just a few key strokes.
My Mom, who was an amazing mother, once told me that she couldn’t imagine trying to raise us while working a full-time job. Being a Mom was her full-time job. She didn’t know how I did both.
I can be honest and say I was a great manager/executive and a lousy mother. If I could do it again, I would change everything. Now that my kids and I are older, but still young enough to need me, I’m doing my best to put them first.
My only saving grace is that my kids know I love them, whole-heartedly and unconditionally, that I am in their corner and have their back, that I will move mountains for them, that I empowered them to love learning and seek knowledge, that I will tell them when they are wrong and make them face the consequences.
God blessed me with three amazing kids, funny, smart, kind, and talented. I’m not a helicopter mommy by any stretch, but if you mess with my babies, I become a nuclear bomb laden, flame throwing, 50 cal spraying apache helicopter Mom that will destroy you, your village, and your descendents to the 3rd generation.
(”Even bad men love their mommas”.)
Part of the problem is the unreasonable expectations. That your child must be in five different enrichment activities before the age of five and in leadership positions in clubs in elementary school to get on the “right track”. That the child must have a perfect home, social and educational environment or else they’ll become mass murderers. And it will be your fault for not hovering over them all the time.
What a stunning observation!