mom, mommy, mother are all common names to call your mom but so is "best friend," I however, will never call my mom my best friend nor do I ever want to. I love my mom more than life itself and I can not imagine life without her but she is not my best friend, she is a parent. My mom is the one who loved me before I was even born, even when I was annoying and kicking her all night long, she is the one who helped me with homework throughout middle school, who read all of my essays, who told me when someone was mean or when I was just being crazy. She has loved me through my best days and definitely through my worst days.
Most people today talk to their mom just like they talk to their best friend. They tell them all the latest gossip and text them non stop; I however, don't need my mom as my best friend, I need her to be the person who tells me when I am wrong and when I am right and to keep me grounded. That is what a mom is for, not for gossiping with. Yes, I do tell my mom some gossip, but I never understood the concept of telling your mom who is hooking up with who or giving them all the juicy details of the night.
In high school, I always over heard my friends talk to their mom's about everything and I would always think, "I wish my mom was cooler" or "I wish I could talk to my mom the way my friends do" But now I realize that I am grateful my mom was never the cool mom or the mom I told everything to.
When a girl was mean to me, I didn't need a best friend-mom to tell me that I didn't do anything wrong, I needed a mom to tell me that I most likely did something to trigger her being mean to me. When I broke curfew, I didn't need a best friend-mom to tell me it was okay to break the law, I needed a mom to tell me that I need to follow the law. When I made a bad decision, I didn't need a best-friend mom who would tell me that it's ok, I needed a mom who would tell me that what I did was completely wrong and that I needed to fix it. And that is exactly what I had. My mom is the most supportive person I know but she is also realistic and is not going to sugar coat something just to make her best friend-daughter happy, because I am not her best friend (she has people her own age to gossip with), I am her daughter.
Because of you, I know right from wrong, I know how to respect people, I know when to speak my mind and when I should probably keep those thoughts to myself. So mom, thank you for being my mom and not my best friend.
