Mother’s and Father’s Day cards are sometimes the only performance reviews we get

EP, 48-year-old academic in Novel York, was attracted on the border of the family portrait by his son, and then 6. “As someone who calls them a” map “and we are not easily identified as a” mother “, we try to squeeze into this frame, of course awkwardly,” said EP, who uses their pronouns and asks for their initials. They noticed how the drawing was perceived.

In Richmond, Ky., Hunter Barker Rogers, a 42-year-old intensive care nurse and a former paramedic, she did not register how much her career came up with her daughter’s imagination, as long as the kindergarten questionnaire stated that her work as “an ambulance girl” (and age as “74”). Cleary, River, now 8 years, watched carefully, and today “pulls out a compact medical center from Dreamhouse Barbie,” her mother said.

Gratitude is a gift

Katina Papson, a 47-year-old high school teacher, said that this Christmas was not in this non-clarous of some families with whom she worked in San Francisco. She said that she would prefer to receive “sporadic gratitude” as a mother herself than to celebrate once a year.

In the United States, 6.5 billion cards are sold annually, according to the Greeting Card Association, and Mother’s Day is the second popular seasonal category for Christmas, said The Novel York Times spokesman. Each card expressing recognition gives parents a “shoulder shoulder”, said Papson. “For example:” You do a good job, continue. “

Her sentiment hits the uncertainty of anxiety in parenting. Nancy Reddy, the author and teacher, examined the beginnings of scientists to measure maternal results in her recent book “The Good Mother Myth: Redearing of our bad ideas on how to be a good mother”, which outlined restrictions on attachment research.