4 years of age: My Mommy can do anything! 8 years of age: My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot! 12 years of age: My Mother doesn't really know quite everything 14 years of age: Naturally, Mother doesn't know that either 16 years of age: Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned 18 years of age: That old woman? She's way out of date! 25 years of age: Well, she might know a little bit about it 35 years of age: Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion 60 years of age: Wonder what Mom would have thought about it? 65 years of age: Wish I could talk it over with Mom once more "Somebody" said a Mother is an unskilled laborer. "Somebody" never gave a squirmy infant a bath. "Somebody" said you know how to be a Mother by instinct. "Somebody" never took a three year old shopping. "Somebody" said that "good" Mothers never yell at their kids. "Somebody's" child never sent a baseball through a neighbor's picture window. "Somebody" said a Mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in books. "Somebody" never had a child stuff beans in her nose. "Somebody" said a Mother always adores her children. "Somebody" never tried to comfort a colicky baby at 3 am. "Somebody" said a Mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back. "Somebody" never organized 7 giggling Brownies into a cookie-selling brigade "Somebody" said the hardest part of being a Mother is labor and delivery. "Somebody" never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten. (or college) "Somebody" said your Mother knows you love her, so you don't have to tell her. "Somebody" isn't a Mother.