Motherrr.com recently did a poll asking daughters what they feel their mothers criticize about them the most. The result was their appearance…especially their hair! We are delighted to share award-winning poet Marlou Newkirk’s thoughtful poem. Mothers and Daughters…and Hair Fellow Mothers do bewareif with courage you would dareto comment on your daughter’s haireven if it…
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Dealing with one’s mother’s emotional and/or mental issues is very hard and draining. I find my feelings conflicted, glad to be helping, resentful to have to be doing it, wanting the best for her but not wanting to have to give up my life to help her so much of the time. Sad, scared, lonely,…
So summer may be over in the Northeast, but I just found a great “beach-read”… even for the winter! It’s a fun, light, easy read, complete with a difficult mother/daughter relationship. What more could I ask for! Wedlocked is a new novel by Bonnie Trachtenberg who was a senior writer and copy chief at Book-of-the-Month…
I used to be a teacher of 3rd grade girls at an all-girls school and sometimes parents would ask me to talk to their daughters about something they had already tried to tell them. They would complain that their daughters just wouldn’t listen to them but maybe they would listen to me. And, often, that was…
Working on changing a less than perfect mother-daughter relationship sure isn’t easy. After all, you’re dealing with another human being here and your history together is long and winding. I, myself, have found that there’s a lot of progress, then back-sliding, then some progress again. I spend a lot of time talking to myself, too,…
It’s difficult writing this blog sometimes because I want to be honest and, yet at the same time, I don’t want to throw my mother under the bus. I love her, I know she loves me and I know that she’s done the best she could as a mother under the circumstances of her own…
One morning I was outside my house talking to a man who was trying to fix a minor problem with the stone wall in my backyard. In talking about what was wrong with the wall, I started to cry. I have a thing about not crying in front of people so I was beyond embarrassed…
“I get angry at my mother sometimes.” That was a very hard sentence for me to write. It makes me feel like a “bad” daughter…how could one feel that way about one’s mother? But I do sometimes and if I understand that anger actually comes from hurt, I can look at what is really making…
Many years ago, I was an elementary school teacher and patience was an important part of the job. I had an abundance of it back then (most of the time). Sometimes I wonder what happened to it. As life has become more stressful and full of increasing responsibilities, I find that I’m not quite as…