But as someone who knows, believe me, it's well worth the risk. Mothers must learn how to tread water at all of the developmental levels they find their kids in. Toddlers want to climb in your lap while you try to eat your meal, and hang all over you in public. Teenagers don't even want to be seen with you in public. As if our shopping mission was top secret.
Mothers are also teachers.
Teaching a newly-permitted driver the ropes showed me that no one teaches quite like a mom. Over the years a mother finds her grasp of the English language tested time and time again. There is nothing that helps a woman appreciate her own mother, like becoming a mother herself. Happy Mother's Day, Mom, from the world's luckiest kid.