For Mother’s Day, Classic Mom-isms

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🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For Mother’s Day, we asked you about your “Mom mantras”: the oft-repeated mottos or go-to expressions that your moms have said over the years. In partnership with the Well desk, we received thousands of submissions, full of sayings that ranged from wise to funny to profound. In today’s episode of “The Sunday Daily,” we feature your “Mom mantras,” and the host Rachel Abrams calls her mother to ask about hers.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:07.2	Hi, honey. How are you?
0:10.3	I'm good. How are you?
0:12.4	Fine, thank you. What's going on?
0:15.4	I told you we're doing this Mother's Day episode, right?
0:18.7	Yes, you did.
0:19.8	Okay, so the idea for it is that we've been collecting all of these expressions that moms say,
0:25.9	like mom mantras were sort of calling them.
0:28.7	Little bits of advice that moms repeat over time.
0:31.4	Oh.
0:32.2	Isn't that cute?
0:33.0	Yes.
0:34.1	Can you guess what I've told people yours is?
0:37.0	No, I can't. Really? No, I can't.
0:38.4	Really?
0:39.6	No, I can't.
0:40.5	What is it?
0:41.5	These are the good old days.
0:43.3	Oh, of course.
0:44.5	Right.
0:45.1	Yes.
0:45.7	Of course.
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