MOTHER’S DAY
Mothers: The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Terrible
How was yours?
“World’s Best Mom,” proclaim a good number of the greeting card choices on my local supermarket’s racks these days. With North American Mother’s Day fast approaching, greeting card companies seem to believe there are many qualifiers for the “World’s Best” title.
Some famous, fabulous moms
Scientist Marie Curie would certainly qualify as an extraordinary mother. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she also raised two daughters alone after the sudden death of her husband. One of her daughters went on to co-win a Nobel Prize of her own.
Indira Gandhi, India’s first female Prime Minister, promoted education and launched her country’s “green revolution,” all while raising two sons — one of whom became India’s PM after her assassination.
Dame Julie Andrews, known for her film roles as Mary Poppins and Maria Von Trapp (characters who were also surrogate moms of sorts), was a very “hands-on” mom. According to her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton,“even in her busiest days as an actress, [she] would still find time to make us eggs for breakfast.”
