10 better-than-good reasons why mothers deserve Mother's Day!

Why 10 better-than-good reasons? Because three and five weren't enough reasons and 10 is a nice, round, impressive number! But I digress...! And the reasons I am going to propound have nothing to do with the usual ones that Moms get credit for...

Like being loving and caring and teaching kids the right value systems or for being there for them at all the right and the wrong times and staying up at night and car pooling them around all day... No Siree! Not for me the usual reasons... I think the 10 reasons Moms need to be given credit for are for the miracles they wrought and the mental strain and stress we all undergo while wroughting (I just invented a new word!!!) the same said miracles!

1. Sitting on one's hands while a toddler wobbles his way towards you and trips over a cushion narrowly missing the corner of a glass table.
2. Counting till 110 when said toddler, now a hyper active two, manages to get in the way of a cricket ball and comes home with a black eye to die for.
3. When a nine year old is warned again and again NOT to use a speed breaker as a take-off ramp for his bike, is threatened with dire consequences if he doesn't cease and desist, but does it anyways and ends up landing on his head and produces a bump that rivals the black eye in size, bumpness (another new word! I am inspired!) and sheer hassle value.
4. Keeping one's mouth shut when an aspiring chef, all off 17 years old, bakes a cake with baking soda instead of good old, garden variety flour and then can't understand why said cake is not only flatter than a pancake but as inedible as a rubber tyre.
5. Sitting on one's hands, again!, when an oh-so-proud 11 year old comes home and boasts of having done head-stands on top of the slide in school... then spending 45 minutes explaining the potential, utterly paralysing effects of a fall and then getting a call from school the next day about just such a fall - but, luckily, without the damage - excepting for 6 stitches!
6. Keeping one's mouth shut when adventurous, experimental, nothing-will-ever-happen to me 20 year olds go out to carouse and swagger and impress every babe in town and then come home with a hangover to end all hangovers and Mom then administers Alka Seltzer, soothing words and TLC... when all she wants to say is "I told you so!"
7. When a young, hurting and miserable 18 year, away from home, hearth and family, weeps her heart out because some Lothario broke it (her heart that is) and the Mom can't do anything, anything at all, except wish the most dire and vicious vengeance upon every man ever put on this earth.
8. Or because a Mother is called upon to solve a catastrophic problem that leaves her very, very grown up 'child' thousands of miles away, a quivering wreck and she deals with the problem by remote control and the help of good friends... and one night totally awake and totally stressed out!
9. Consider the sheer terror that a Mother experiences when, in a crowded shopping mall, her child disappears for not more than 30 seconds and the relief she gives vent to with a tight slap on her bottom (or actually any part she can reach!) when the child reappears clutching a stranger's hand.
10. Imagine, if you can, the frustration, depression, despair(!) and sheer anger a Mother feels when her all-knowing, all-grown-up son is down with the Mother of all colds (I wonder why it's ALWAYS the Mother and not the Father of all wars, cold, disasters?)and will just not listen to common sense advice just because WHY should one listen to one's Mother? What does she know anything about anything?

Well, I feel these are 10 better-than-good reasons why Mothers deserve all the praise they get on Mother's day.

And there are two homes truths about Mothers and kids that were, I am sure, accepted even by the Neanderthals...

One: to a parent a child will always be a child however old the child is - 5, 15, 55 or 105!

Second: It doesn't matter how much distance there is between a Mom and her kid; however much the Mom tries to run away from her kid (or more often vice-versa), she will never be able to get away, because the kid or kids is inside her head - and one can't really run away from that!