"I had the meanest mother in the Whole World"
(from school newsletter)
"While the other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have
cereal, eggs and toast. When the other kids had cokes and candy for
lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my dinner was different
from other kids, too."
"My mother insisted on knowing where we were all the time. You'd
think that we were on the chain gang. She had to know who our friends
were and what we were doing. She insisted that if we would be gone for an
hour, that we be gone for an hour or less."
"I am ashamed to admit it, but she actually had the nerve to
break the child labor law. She made us work! We had to wash all the
dishes, make the beds, learn to cook and all sorts of odd things. I
believe she lay awake nights thinking of mean things to do to us. She
always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth."
"By the time we were teenagers, she was much wiser and our life
became even more unbearable. None of this tooting the car horn for us to
come running. And she embarrassed us to no end by making our friends and
dates come to the door and get us."
"I forgot to mention that my friends were dating at the mature
age of 12 and 13, but my old fashioned mother refused to let me date
until I was 15."
"My mother was a complete failure as a mother. None of us has
ever been arrested. And who do you think we have to thank for this
terrible way we turned out? You're right. Our mean mother!"
"Look at all the things we missed. We never got to take part in a
riot and a million and one other things our friends did. She made us grow
up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults."
"I am trying to raise my children to stand a little taller, and I
am filled with pride when my children can call me mean."
"You see, thank God, He gave me the meanest Mother in the world -
from this I would say the country doesn't need a good 5-cent cigar. It
needs more mean mothers and dads."
Author-Unknown
A Salute to All Mothers.
Solomon Paulos
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