Yesterday the internet was flooded with Mother's day messages, it was from both ends, from children and from mothers. Messages from children are a very common thing, for years it has been going on. But in the last couple of years, I am also seeing messages from Mothers on what are their expectations. And why not. When children grow up, they want to move on their own path, which is fair enough and every generation does that. But when you move ahead you must not leave some people, like your parents behind, not only mother, but your father also.
It's a cycle of life and keeps repeating with all the generations. If you have a grown-up child and an old parent, you will exactly know what this means. 2 different generations at each end with you being in center and experiencing both ends, the past and the future version of you. In my family we do not believe in putting up messages on social media wishing each other. We like to keep it personal and it is not a one-day affair. I make it a point to talk to my Mother every second day, and to my Son at his convenience. My mother is old, I can say very old and she needs extra attention, as far as my son is concerned, he is building up his life and keeps busy so I do not like to keep disturbing him much, but then he is a loving child and from his side only he makes efforts, which when I see I feel very proud of myself.
As far as gifts are concerned again, these are formalities I believe, I like to keep gifting my mother throughout the year and not just on her birthday and mother's day. Though I do give her a gift because I know she deserves to feel special. Not to miss mentioning that I miss my dad a lot, because in my growing up he was my Mother and Father both.
Coming to the point of why are Mother's setting expectations from their children and being loud about it now. Probably a lot of Mother's are feeling the need for it, because their children may not be paying attention through the year and only waking up on these certain days. I also saw some Instagram posts of Mothers saying, no more frames and mugs...haha, that's funny. This is something even I have experiences but that time my Son was in his teens. Ofcourse I understand he did not have much of sense of what to give and that time he felt that was the best. So, it's ok.
I believe that the biggest gift a child can give to their mother is their presence in her life, which is not only more than enough for her, but it means everything to her.
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