Essays About Mother

Bonnie Smith-Yackel’s essay “My Mother Never Worked” from Women: A Journal of Liberation magazine in 1975 explores society’s tendency to devalue the work and contributions of women. As a prolific writer, Smith-Yackel has penned numerous essays, book reviews, and short stories for various publications. In her writing, she emphasizes the demanding responsibilities her mother shouldered […]

On our day to day basis, we are influenced by something, or someone that has a lasting effect in our lives. And the person that has influenced my life is my mother. My mother, because she is the person that has always stood by my side, and has always encouraged me to reach my full […]

What is motherhood? Being caring and having patience are the main two components that make a good mother. In the poems “Daystar by Rita Dove and “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan both of the mothers are going through different stages of motherhood. In both poems we see the similarities that both poems […]

My mother is my idol because she inspires me to be a strong people. She teaches me about the meaning of life. My mother’s name is Yusdawati but usually she is called Nida. My mother was born on 10 december 1963. So, this year she is 48 years old. She is pretty heavy and medium […]

The Pregnancy Trap by Gerry Garibaldi creates the idea that society has become more accepting of teenage pregnancy (634-38). When Garibaldi learns all of his favorite girls are pregnant, he asks some of them, “Do you think getting pregnant when you’re a teenager is a good thing or a bad thing? ” (635). One student, […]

In the section Gardening in the Tropics Senior appears to examine stereotypical notions of Caribbean men and women. Within the title of each poem, Shango: God of Thunder and Yemoja: Mother of Waters, traits of the men and women of the region are echoed, along with reflections upon our African lineage. Shango Orisha in the […]

My least favorite relative is my aunt. When I lived in Burma I used to be good friends with my cousin. We used to hang out during the school time. I liked her but I didn’t like her mother. They are rich people and they discriminate against the poor people. In the beginning we liked […]

Simon Birch was an undersized boy who was determined to find out what was god’s purpose for him in life, but deep down Simon knew he was going to be a hero. Due to the fact that Simon had a disability the stunted his growth, he faced multiple problems, but he didn’t let that stop […]

There is an adult who is telling the story talking about he or she’s aunt Belle and how she had a alligator. And aunt Belle how she would train the alligator and how she got older and she saw the alligator. The Night the bed fell was about a kid named James and about the […]

Do you think women are choosing to have children unmarried? In some instances that is true, but most of the time it is a mistake. Today one in three children are born to an unmarried mother. Researchers like Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas took a bold step and wrote an article that gives the different […]

“With the cutting of the umbilical cord, physical attachment to our mothers ends and emotional and psychological attachment begins” (Azar). From the very beginning, infants need someone to comfort them when they are scared, feed them when they are hungry, and take care of them when they are sick. Without this attachment, many developmental problems […]

To other people around the world, everyday life of Americans may seem luxurious. Americans wake up, go to their jobs, go home to their families, and then go to bed. Americans tend to complain about how hard life is, however, some Americans have reason to gripe because they are facing extreme financial issues and even […]

“Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables. ” – Tambu ‘s father quote and “And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other. Aiwa! What will […]

Nowadays in most countries year by year there are more and more cases when babies are found dead in garbage cans or on the streets as a result of women’s fear and reluctance to raise their newborn babies. From the latest published statistics about this kind of cases there was established extremely high level of […]

Dillard admires many personal qualities in her mother. Although there was many she favored one out of them all. This quality that stood out to Dillard the most was how her mother made a life lesson out of everything she did. One way her mother would try to teach them a life lesson was by […]

In both Patricia Grace’s short story It Used to Be Green Once and in Nino Ricci’s short story Going to the Moon, the mother figures to the protagonists are caring and outgoing, but differ on their ability to comprehend specific situations. First and foremost, the characters that act as the mother figures in the short […]

Many children will never know anything about their biological background, because their mother had a sperm or egg donation. Is that fair to children because their mother made that choice? Everybody deserves to know where they came from, and what risks they could suffer in life. For example heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, degenerative diseases, these […]

Within the last half century, the number of women participating in the workforce has increased exponentially. Women are gaining more and more equality in the social, economic and political affairs, but gender inequity within the home regarding the division of household labor remains. Women are still primarily responsible for housework and childcare. Arlie Russell Hochschild’s […]

While visiting the National Art museum in Washington D.C. there were many interesting art work that I saw, but the one that touched my heart was a painting called Mother and child by Mary Cassatt. When I saw the painting the first thing that came to my mind was my three-year-old daughter. The painting Mother […]

The conflict of a typical mother/daughter relationship exists in many cultures. This conflict for many Asian-American women was further exasperated as these women were forced to also deal with adjusting as first, second, and third generation Americans in a sometimes unwelcome society. As a child, Japanese-American Janice Mirikitani, was interned, along with her mother, at […]

The Five Mother Sauces are Bechamel, Veloute, Espagnole, Hollandaise and Tomate. The first mother sauce that I found on a restaurant’s menu was Bechamel. Bechamel is a basic white sauce made from milk and white roux. I found a recipe at the Fisher’s Tudor House in Pennsylvania. They are using Bechamel on a seafood dish. […]

Being a mother is a job of its own, in consequence being a working mother is an even greater job. It never dawned on me that mothers work a second shift. Second shift work is the unpaid work women do after their paid work is done. You will think that as adults, we all have […]