For Mothers

The primary focus of this website is on the adult daughter’s perspective of the mother-daughter relationship, but there is certainly a lot of overlap…every mother is/was a daughter and many daughters are also mothers. We have found that a helpful strategy in trying to heal the mother-daughter relationship is to try to see things from the other’s perspective and to try to understand their feelings, motivations and viewpoint. That’s why mothers often find the articles, videos and resources on this site to be helpful too. But this section is specifically For Mothers:

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Featured Article

Lesson of the Day: ‘America’s Mothers are in Crisis’

After being stuck at home during the pandemic with children yelling “Mom…MOM…Motherrr” all day, everyday, America’s mothers are frustrated. The New York Times set up a Scream Line where women can call in to yell, laugh, cry or vent, for a solid minute.

Click Here To Listen to the Primal Scream Line

By Jeremy Engle

The New York Times Primal Scream Line shows that America's Mothers are in Crisis

Featured Article: “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis” by Jessica Grose

In the introduction to a series on how America’s working mothers are navigating the coronavirus pandemic, Jessica Grose writes:

The pandemic has touched every group of Americans, and millions are suffering, hungry and grieving. But many mothers in particular get no space or time to recover.

The impact is not just about mothers’ fate as workers, though the economic fallout of these pandemic years might have lifelong consequences. The pandemic is also a mental health crisis for mothers that fervently needs to be addressed, or at the very least acknowledged.

To address this complex and pressing crisis, The New York Times created a multimedia report that lays out exactly what mothers are facing and what needs to be done to support them. The project’s interactive design is supported by playful illustrations, glaring statistics and a special kind of audio feature: Times editors set up a hotline for mothers to call in and scream it out.

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More Articles

Living With My Mother During College

Living With My Mother During College
By Caroline Suozzi Back in high school, I counted down the days until I could move out and go to college. I love my parents and come from a mostly happy household, but I was more than ready to move on and start my own life. After graduating high school in 2018, I headed off to college with my paread more

Jealous of Your Child

Jealous of Your Child
By Lisa Belkin, The New York Times, Motherlode - Adventures in Parenting Over on Slate yesterday, a reader wrote to the Dear Prudence column, looking for advice. She asked, in part: I am the mother of a tall, shapely, stunning, 17-year-old daughter … I have worked to help her be strong, secure, anread more

Improving the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Improving the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Book Excerpt: For many, motherhood is one of life's greatest joys, but getting along with your children, particularly daughters, isn't always a piece of cake. In “Side by Side: The Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication,” author Dr. Charles Sophy examines this familread more

Building the Mother-Daughter Connection

Building the Mother-Daughter Connection
By Barbara Katz Have you ever asked yourself...Why do I have to walk on egg shells around my daughter?  Why does my daughter feel criticized when I'm just trying to help?  How can my daughter say I don't understand her?  Why must I bite my tongue when I see how she parents her children?  These aread more

Too Close for Comfort? Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship

Too Close for Comfort?  Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship
By Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer, Oprah.com I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.  ~ Harry Truman We believe mothers and their adult daughters can't be best friends, but they can develop a gratread more

Problems With My Grown Daughter

Problems With My Grown Daughter
Question: I have a grown daughter problem that is tearing me apart and I don't know what to do! She blames me for everything that has gone wrong in her life, especially in the last few years! Her father died in 2004 and since then it has become even more of a downhill struggle - for blame! I confessread more

When Moms Envy Daughters

When Moms Envy Daughters
By Tara Deliberto, PhDc, ParentingPink.com You’re a mother of a daughter you adore.  You would do absolutely anything for her.  While she is off socializing with her friends, occupying herself with hobbies, and toying with ideas of what she wants to become, you have the pleasure of sitting back aread more

How to Improve the Mother-Daughter Bond

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Conflict & Comfort

Conflict & Comfort
The Mother-Daughter Bond - Conflict & Comfort By Elinor Robin, Ph.D. For many women, the mother-daughter connection is life's most complex relationship. So it comes as no surprise that many of us struggle with the relationship that we share with our mothers and many of us struggle with the rread more

Mothers vs. Daughters

Mothers vs. Daughters
Mothers vs. Daughters: Why Can't We Just Get Along? WebMD Feature from "Good Housekeeping" Magazine By Jennifer Allen, www.WebMD.com You love each other...yet one of you is always saying the wrong thing!  How to improve the conversation-and the relationship. I sometimes think of my daughtersread more