All Mothers Should Be Free to Celebrate Mother’s Day the Way They Want
It’s time to pass the torch to the new generation of moms
Mother’s Day is near.
Soon, mothers of various generations — along with their children, spouses, partners, and relatives — will convene at restaurants, homes, and special events to celebrate the magnificence of motherhood.
Some newer moms — we’ll call them “active duty mothers” — will attend these engagements because they genuinely want to, and they’ll arrive wearing expressions of cheerfulness, as their hearts burst forth with gratitude.
But other active duty mothers?
Not so much.
And that’s because the second set of active duty mothers, you see, belong to a different ilk. They will be the moms who spend their precious time packing up baby bags and then schlepping them (as well as their children) to God-knows-where because God-knows-who essentially mandated their presence.
For this second set of active duty mothers, Mother’s Day is little more than a perfunctory courtesy, a day rooted in obligatory dogma. And these moms know that they’re just an accessory.
They were born too late, these active duty mothers, which pretty much means Mother’s Day doesn’t…
