{"id":114,"date":"2009-11-03T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/11\/thanks-mom.html"},"modified":"2009-11-03T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:16:01","slug":"thanks-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/11\/thanks-mom.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-897\" src=\"https:\/\/homeshuling.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/mom1.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"mom1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>My mom sent me a link to a wonderful article by Anne Roiphe for grandparents.com, called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandparents.com\/gp\/content\/expert-advice\/family-matters\/article\/contemporary-grandparenting-grandmotherhood.html?clktrk=opinions_feature_story-1\" target=\"_blank\">Grandmothers Should Be Seen and Not Heard<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em>It&#8217;s written for grandmothers, but it actually was a wonderful read for me. I wish I didn&#8217;t agree with almost everything she said, but I do. My mom is a superb bubbe, and I know that she thinks I&#8217;m a wonderful mom, but I still can&#8217;t handle her criticisms, or even her suggestions (even the good ones), very gracefully. The comments on the article are all from grandparents &#8211; I&#8217;d love to hear what some moms think about it.<br \/>\nOf course, I too need to be reminded to shut up from time to time. Here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/bullseyebaby.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/24\/they-fuck-you-up-your-mum-and-dad-they-may-not-mean-to-but-they-do\/\">poem<\/a> to that effect (sort of) that I read on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bullseyebaby.wordpress.com\/\">bullseye, bab<\/a>y blog. Warning: contains the f word a few times. Thanks, Jena!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom sent me a link to a wonderful article by Anne Roiphe for grandparents.com, called Grandmothers Should Be Seen and Not Heard. It&#8217;s written for grandmothers, but it actually was a wonderful read for me. I wish I didn&#8217;t agree with almost everything she said, but I do. My mom is a superb bubbe,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thanks, Mom - Homeshuling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/11\/thanks-mom.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thanks, Mom - Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My mom sent me a link to a wonderful article by Anne Roiphe for grandparents.com, called Grandmothers Should Be Seen and Not Heard. 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