Why Mother’s Day Is Hard (And How To Make It What You Want This Year): Episode 311
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you have mixed feelings about Mother’s Day, you’re not alone. For some, it’s a reminder of loss or grief, unmet expectations or missing people we love. For others, the social media buildup and commercialized clichés create expectations that can lead to disappointment. And even for those who don’t completely dread Mother’s Day, it can be hard to articulate what we really want to the ones who want to spoil us. In short: it’s a lot. In this week’s Episode 311, Meagan and Sarah validate why Mother’s Day can be complicated, reflect on our own celebrations during different seasons of life, and offer ideas for how to celebrate in a way that feels right to you this year. Join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the Mom Hour. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 311 of the Mom Hour. I am Sarah Powers here |
| 0:27.8 | with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. Happy Mother's Day week to you. Happy Mother's |
| 0:33.7 | Day week to you. So if you're listening when this comes out, Mother's Day is this |
| 0:38.3 | coming Sunday. And by the way, if you're listening at some totally random time, |
| 0:41.8 | stick around with us. And we are talking about Mother's Day today and specifically |
| 0:46.9 | kind of how it can be complicated for a lot of people because some conflicted |
| 0:52.1 | feelings maybe be disappointing some years and not all the time. Sometimes it's |
| 0:57.0 | great, but I think one of the things Megan that we try to do on this podcast is |
| 1:02.2 | just acknowledge the things that seem shiny, happy, obvious on the outside that |
| 1:08.8 | when you become a mom, you're like handed this playbook where it's like and you're |
| 1:12.4 | supposed to love Mother's Day because you get flowers and everybody treats you |
| 1:15.9 | special. And then I think we just try to like take the lid off that a little bit |
| 1:19.7 | and not tell you that you have to feel differently. But if you do feel differently, |
| 1:23.9 | it's okay. Yeah. I have two thoughts about this. One is I think from you and I talking |
| 1:32.5 | just recently and also just from like decades of talking to other people about Mother's Day, |
| 1:38.3 | particularly mothers. I don't even know that there is a culturally accepted list of people |
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