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May 11 2025 - Mamamia

Prompt: Mothers Did you ever believe that mothers really had eyes in the backs of their heads? And what about mothers in spirit? Was there anyone in your family or among friends who acted as a spiritual mother to you or to someone else that you know of?

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When I was very young, I was always amazed at how my mother seemed to know EVERYTHING. There was very little I could hide from her. I did try...

As I grew up, I realised it was never just her - there was a network of mothers, aunts, best friends, and nosey neighbours twittering like birds over who's child had done what. It made us kids get creative. Which I know was not what they were hoping for.

As a young adult, I realised just how much she knew and let me get away with. Letting me think I had gotten away with something or managed to pull the wool over her eyes. There was no wool. She had 20/20 vision. I'm not sure how she decided what stuff to let go of, and which to take me to task over - it was possibly a safety issue. Or more likely which stuff would reflect the worst in her.

As a mother of two I now have a new perspective on it, because my son will die on a hill over something that I KNOW he did. On times he is so convincing - it is scary. Others, I wonder if he even engaged his brain to come up with that excuse. I made the mistake of once flippantly saying, "If you are going to lie to me, at least make it believable." He took this to heart. Feeback rather than a reprimand. I knew would regret it as soon as I said it. It must be a rite of passage. Or payback... Possibly both.

As kids we forget that our parents were once our age. And kids are kids no what the generation. Same drama, different decades.