Ways To Be Your Mother's Best Friend

It was never easy to be friends with your mother. Parents always has the prejudice of age and parental baggage to deal with. You look up to your mom as a parent and not as another human being with whom you could be friends. But no one in this universe needs a friend more than your mother. It is our mothers who spend the best years of their life parenting us. But once we grow up, we hardly have time for them.

This Mother's Day, don't just buy expensive gifts for your mother as she doesn't really want them. Try to become your mother's best friend. That will be the best Mother's Day gift for your mom.

Make her feel special by doing things you never did before.

Mother's Best Friend

Listen To Her

Most parents complain that their children hardly listens to them after they cross a certain age. If you have work pressure and other issues, your mom too has her own set of problems. Lend her an ear to help her feel unburdened.

Your First Girlfriend

Most mama's boy admits that their mother is their first girlfriend. Every man secretly wants his wife to be like his mother. There is a lot you can learn about women from your mother.

Shopping Partner

Mother-daughter relationships often have ups and downs. But nothing connects women the way shopping together does. Your mom should be your shopping partner from now on.

Womanly Advice

Women have a lot to learn from their mothers. Mother-daughter relationship often matures to the next level after the daughter gets married. It makes you realise how resilient and strong your mother has been.

Help Her Make Young Friends

If you are your mother's best friend, you must help her make friends for herself. If she can make friend with your friends, then nothing like it. Your mom might like to have some young people around her for a change.

Discuss Relationship Problems

There is no better problem solver in the entire world that your mom. Have you ever tried discussing your relationship problems with her? If not, then you really should. She can give very good advice coming from her age old wisdom like no other counselor can.

Mother's Day comes just once in a year. But your mother is a woman who has made everyday of your life worth living. Try to be your mother's best friend throughout your life so that she never feels lonely.

Story first published: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 18:59 [IST]
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