4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything!
8 YEARS OF AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it!
35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.
45 YEARS OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.
THE STAGES OF MOTHERHOOD ARE THE NAMES YOU ARE CALLED:
mommy, mom, mother.
What does that mean when I'm still......mom?
P.S. update: Now there are Motrin Moms, quite a powerful bunch with new media.
Let's see. My 4-year-old already has the 12-year-old mentality, and has taken to calling me Mother. So when she is actually 16, she'll be somewhere between the age 25 and 35 thinking? I can live with that.
Posted by: Janet | November 18, 2008 at 07:09 AM
At what age do they call you MOTHERPIE ?
Posted by: anthony | November 18, 2008 at 07:32 AM
Anthony -- they called me MotherPie in letters from camp and that is how I signed my letters. It was a stupid thing to name my blog by that... I drive away a lot of readers who would otherwise be interested in the non-mom things I write about - culture, art, media, etc.
Posted by: MotherPie | November 18, 2008 at 07:42 AM
oh these stages are so true!!!!! especially for Mothers and Daughters.
:)
Posted by: Rhonda | November 18, 2008 at 08:44 AM
I think it works for sons, too!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | November 18, 2008 at 09:42 AM
They're all so true; the last one is true for me now!
Posted by: tut-tut | November 18, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Being mommy, mom, and mother has been the greatest adventure of my life!
Posted by: allison | November 19, 2008 at 01:19 PM