It’s Mother’s Day weekend and My new favorite Mom song is by Eminem. The hook is amazing—but the song is pretty harsh.
My mom loved valium, and lots of drugs/that’s why I am like I am ‘cause I’m like her. (The video is good but brutal; parental advisory!.)
At the end the artist goes, “sorry mom…still love you though.” He apologizes because it’s hard to tell the truth when the truth is hard. Especially about your mom.
My mom told the hard truth about her mom when she wrote, The Winning Family, a self-esteem classic that was published on three continents. Grandma wasn’t as much of a hot mess as Eminem’s mom, but it was still a hard story, one that mom has told on many stages and many pages. This is what it is: Mom didn’t feel loved. Her mom didn’t know how.
Mother’s Day is a mixed bag for many. I know how lucky I was to get the mom I got, a mom who wanted to be the parent she wished she’d had, and found a way to rise above the harsh patterns. She took the path of the learner, the mindset …