By Charlene M Brown
When you were little, did you think your Mommy knew everything? No matter what compelling question you thought you had, Mommy had an
answer that made sense to you?
When I was little, yes, this was absolutely true.
But as I grew older, I came to be dissatisfied with my mother’s answers to things, I sought more.
And so it goes that as we grow into adulthood, we find that Mom doesn’t always know what’s best for us anymore.
This is not a bad thing, though. In fact, it is absolutely necessary in finding our adult selves.
I was a rebellious teen. An argument can be made that I still have that rebellious spirit guiding me, though more in the background now. 
This rebellious spirit, let’s call her Saucy, likes to mix things up a bit. But more than that, Saucy still wants to do things her own way.
As we grow older our relationship with Mom goes from thinking she knows everything, to thinking she knows nothing, back to thinking her advice might be good on this topic, to, “I wonder what Mom thinks about this.” Isn’t that crazy! It comes full circle.
Somewhere as we grow up, we begin to think that maybe Mom has some wisdom after all. Part of this is looking to another female to perhaps have some insight on what we, also female, are going through. I have a writer friend who says that words aren’t new, even the way you use them isn’t new; someone has done it before.
Life Happenstances aren’t new either. Most of the things you will go through in Life have already happened to someone else. You’re not the first woman to have relationship issues; you’re not the first woman to work or have to pay bills; and you’re not the first woman to question her existence.
But there is hope, ladies! There were women before us who have all gone through the same things! They may not be our biological mothers, or even in our own families. But I assure they are there.
My point is that, whatever your relationship with your mother or women who have mothered you, she has gone through many of the same things that you may be going through. Her advice might be worth its weight in salt after all.
Just something to think about.
Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Do (because I seek advice from women who have done it all before)!!
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- Mothers Really Do Have Favorites!
- HerStory: Gaining Woman’s Wisdom!
- Little Things That Will Delight Your Mother!
- The Big Switcheroo!
- The “Other” Mothers!
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