It seems to be standard practice in schools across the country to have kids fill out “All About Mom” questionnaires to give as gifts for Mother’s Day. Whether the kids are old enough to write their own answers or the teachers fill in the answers for them, moms always learn a thing or two about themselves on their special day.
Does it matter if these things are true? Not really. Once they are written on paper and passed around to tears of laughter in the teacher’s lounge, it will be true from that day forward.
I think teachers do this for their own amusement!
I asked moms to post the “All About Mom” questionnaires their kids brought home from school on the Mommy Shorts facebook page and then compiled all of my favorite responses into one long list describing the most FABULOUSLY GLAMOROUS mom around.
I think we should all aspire to such greatness.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Love, Your Kid
There’s one last Mother’s Day sentiment that didn’t fit into my “All About Mom” compilation, but I’d like to feature it regardless.
It’s a homemade card from a little boy who hasn’t yet learned how to spell the word “beautiful”.
Hope everyone had a buttfoll Mother’s Day!
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Special thanks to Anna from MY LIFE AND KIDS who is 100 Years Old and Brenna from SUBURBAN SNAPSHOTS who let me use her “bing anoid superpower”, probably my favorite response of the bunch!
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I have a kindergartener, I also got the All about Mom list – and loved how I was upgraded to liking “shopping” this year as opposed to last year when I liked “napping”. 😉 But – I also have a middle schooler. Who’s teacher took the time to have them do a craft, where they had to write down on a deck of homemade cards, 52 reasons why they loved their mom.
I write this lengthy comment for you, but also for your readers, in particular those who struggle with aspects of parenting and/or who are teachers. There were some “love is blind” or “holy crap I need to fill out 52 of these things” items – such as “gorgeous” or “beautiful”. But as I read through them – and started to tear up – and then started to do the ugly cry – it was for this reason:
I am confident in my ability to parent a baby, a toddler, a preschooler. I am insecure and anxious about my ability to parent a middle-schooler/teen. I say to moms struggling in the early years this, that maybe they are insecure about raising a toddler but will knock the teen years out of the ballpark! Being a parent is forever and not everyone is “OMG, The best EVER” at every stage. We all have our abilities and moments when we shine. Back to my point – I am NOT secure in my ability to parent teens. So when I started reading through my “leaving childhood for teenhood” child’s notes and saw things such as “my biggest cheerleader”, ” the first one I turn to when I have a problem”, “always pushes me to try my best”, “Always tries to make me happy when I am sad” etc. …. my anxieties disappeared in the explosion of my heart, and the knowledge that while we will have ups and downs – we will be fine. The foundation is, and always will be there, and for that I did, for the first time ever with a present, the full on ugly cry. That was that teacher’s gift to me – this little booklet that was my best gift of my life and is now my first “rescue in case of fire” material good – and I made sure to write and thank her for that, from the bottom of my heart.
So for those who can related to me, feeling secure in their ability to parent young children but feeling anxious about parenting older ones – suggest this craft to their teacher. I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised with how much of an invisible bond you have with your children, the knowledge that even when rolling their eyes through your lecture what they are actually hearing is “I love you” – and I guarantee there are other parents that will be just as needing of, and grateful for the crafted gift as yourself.
Kande, This is such a wonderful comment. I think a lot of us are worried all around! I feel like what I’m doing now might be setting me up for a tough middle-schooler, but you’ve offered such a great perspective.
Thank you. I needed that. 🙂
I’m the buttfol recipient of that card, and must confess it’s a girl (Hazel) who wrote it! And god, I hope she meant beautiful.
As a kindy teacher, we absolutely do it for our own amusement! This is absolutely my favouritest activity I do all year!! Always cracks me up!!
My toddler can’t talk much yet but when as what he loves most about his mom his answer was “MAMA.” It made me happy.
I got one of these from my kindergartener. It said “your mom always says” and in the blank space he wrote “no” (he knows me so well). It also said “you like her because” and his answer was “she’s kind of okay.”
My favorite Mother’s Day gift so far. It was a sweet little card. Kids are just so candid at that age you can’t help but laugh!
haha…funny… kids are kids…..they just say what they see..
we should understand that kids do watch us closely..they always know what we are doing…..
Omg! Why would any teacher have “My mom weighs ____ pounds,” on a Mother’s Day survey?!?! (Or on ANY survey!!)
I got “my mom is sad when… There is a long line at Starbucks”
I got “my mom’s job is…..to play with me”
& “I love how my mom…..kisses me”
My little guy is 3 so this was my first of this kind & I loved it.
My son is 23 & going thru this horrible stage now. I used to feel like a great mother, as he was a wonderful child, a pretty good tween and a good teenager. But he’s turning into a pretty terrible adult. He’s selfish, ungrateful and can be hurtful and mean. So to you mother’s of young children, I say cherish all the moments while your children are little. I was a single mother and I’m still waiiting for mine to grow up and appreciate all the sacrifices I made for him. Makes me sad to celebrate Mother’s Day, as I remember him as a child and how happy I was to be his mother!
How old is mommy? ALMOST as old as daddy
What is mommy’s favorite food? chicken on the bone (I am totally freaked out by any piece of meat that still has a bone in it and even more freaked out by chicken)
What does mommy like to drink? Soda and Vodka…yup, Vodka
He also drew a picture of our family except that he left his little sister out because “she is just too crazy.”
My son is 4. Can’t wait to see what next year’s Mother’s Day Tea will bring.
True Facts.!