A daughter’s view on motherhood

Every interview tells a story and this is no exception.

As parts of the world prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, it is my pleasure to share the fragments of understanding that one of my 6-year old daughters revealed during a recent interview at school.

This short interview teaches me one, important thing:  Despite the apparent complexity of modern family life, there is a simplicity to it all that perhaps only our children can reveal to us.

The rest needs no more explanation.  

1. Why did God make mothers?
Because he wanted everyone to have a mummy.  One baby grew into a mummy and that mummy had a baby.  Then that baby grew into a mummy and had a baby.

2. What ingredients are mothers made of?
Babies, bones and skin.

3. Why did you get your mother and not some other mother?
Because I was in my mummy’s tummy.

4. What kind of little girl was your mother?
She liked Barbies.  She played in her bedroom a lot.

5. What did your mother need to know about your father before she married him?
She needed to know my dad’s name first.

6. Why did your mother marry your father?
She talked a lot with my dad and got in love with my dad.

7. Who’s the boss of your house?
My dad.

8. What the different between mums and dads?
Mums like to hug and kiss a lot.  Dads like to work a lot.

9. What does your mother do while you are at school?
She goes to work and sometimes she eats lunch at home to be with the dog.  At work I think she writes e-mails to people like my dad.

10.  If you could change one thing about your mother, what would it be?
Nothing.