Hi Mom, it's your son...hello?

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For some of us Mother's day and Father's day

 can bring on all sorts of depression, rejection 

and other forms of mental disorder.  

Some mothers for example are referred to as helicopter mothers or hovering mothers, who butt into their kids lives and try live vicariously through their kids.  I have known and am related to a few of these women. 

 But by and large, once the kid has left the nest, most mothers

 move on and usually their kids are so wrapped up in their own lives they totally forget they still have a living mother or father...

And then there is the second kind of mother.

This mother rejects the fact they had given birth to the child and that child will never live up to what the mother's vision

 of the perfect son or daughter.  Sometimes they will even go so far as to "adopt" a friend of their own child.

 Mother-in-laws often seem to be this of sort of mother.   

 I have known two such women.  

 And finally there is yet another type of mother.  This mother loves their kids warts and all.  They have prepared them to live their own life on their own terms, with no micro management from her after they have left the nest. 

 I am lucky enough to be married to such a woman.  

She does worry about the her kids 

but is adult enough to know that 

she prepared her kids to make the right decisions 

with their life.  

No matter what type of mother you have in your life, let her know you still love her....Warts and farts and all.