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What Motherhood Means to Me

In honor of Mother's Day, we asked writers to tell us what motherhood means to them

Published on: April 27, 2018

mother and child at sunset

What does motherhood mean to you?

That’s the question we asked writers for this year’s May issue.

The topic was on our minds, and not just because of Mother’s Day. At ParentMap, we think about motherhood a lot. Its responsibilities, its joys, its trials — motherhood asks so much of so many of us.

And what, we wondered, does it all mean?

For some moms, it means navigating life’s challenges as the sole parent. For others, it’s about coming to terms with the choices of their own mother. Still more wonder how their mom ever did it all in the first place.

Our writers are moms of all sorts: new, divorced, male. Their stories don’t fit one narrative because there isn’t one. As one of our writers puts it, “That’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned from motherhood: No one actually knows what they’re doing.”

And with that, we invite you to sit back and read on for seven stories about the ups and downs of motherhood.

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