I had the most wonderful mother who always had a smile on her face even though she had a tough life. I wish we could have been friends and she would have shared her unhappy times with me,  but that was during the 1940's and parents were so different. I'm sure she didn't want to burden me with what she was unhappy about. Years later when I learned the reason for her times of unhappiness it made me feel even more sad. She put up with a lot.

Me and My Mother

My brother left the house one day and didn't return for seven years without so much of a phone call. It broke her heart. I came home from high school one day to find her crying, I asked her why she was so sad and she said ("it's nothing"). Later I learned it was because she was so worried about my brother. I wish she could have shared this with me as a friend. In this day and age it is my opinion that too many mothers and some fathers want their children to be their friends, but they don't seem to know where to draw the line as a parent. As a result the children seem to lose respect and are confused when they are corrected in any way. It's a marvelous advantage for children to have their parents as friends but parents have to know that SPECIAL line should not be crossed.  My mother left this world forty seven years ago and that's a lot of Precious Time Lost for me.