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Give Your Mother Time To Herself [1]

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Date: 2023-05-13  

Mom and kitten.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, which means today is a great day to avoid any place that sells flowers, candy, or saccharine greeting cards. In recent years there has been some small acknowledgment that this holiday is not without controversy, as companies allow customers to avoid Mother's Day marketing. Like everything else in the world, the Right has a problem with basic decency. I don’t want to make things worse, so I have a suggestion for anyone who wants to honor their mother with more than a trip to the grocery store.

Make sure she has time to herself.

If you live at home, this is easy. Start doing one or two chores all the time. Make sure that there is one thing that needs doing at home that she can count on you doing, doing well, and doing all the time. Make sure she knows that she never has to think about the towels getting washed, folded, and stored again. That the dishes will always be washed and put up.

The ‘second shift’ of housework that has to be done after work robs women of necessary leisure to spend doing something silly or creative or just restorative. Tell her you don’t mind the mess MAKES THIS WORSE. Living in squalor and eating fast or convenience food all the time is not good for anyone, so making sure this doesn’t happen should be everyone’s responsibility. The suffragettes famously wanted "Bread and Roses" so help us all get some, which means make sure everyone lives in a clean and orderly place and has decent, healthy food that can be eaten in a lovely setting.

Further, since I’m being a pain, don’t make this a gift. Acknowledge that ‘bread and roses’ is a human right, not something that one person gives to another. Aristotle said that conferring gifts is the mark of superiority and receiving them the mark of inferiority, so if you think of this as a ‘gift’ to your mother or wife, you should immediately see the problem. Mom should be able to count on having that time; she should never suspect that this is a gift that puts her in anyone’s debt. She has a right to both bread and roses.

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