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Honoring some amazing moms
The second Sunday in May is known as Mother’s
Day. It is a day that is set aside to honor mothers.
Throughout history there have been outstanding
achievements made by women who, in addition to
being a wife and mother, impacted the world.
Nancy Edison
the morning before we went to school,” her daughter,
illegally sold. She fi led a complaint in court and won
Emma Walton Hamilton, told Today. They also write
her son’s freedom.
the book series The Very Fair Princess together.
Mother Teresa
In 1950, Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu created the
Lou Xiaoying
The 1970s were a
Missionaries of Charity. She said it was to care for,
hard time for China,
“the hungry, the homeless, the crippled, the blind,
true, so sure of me; and I felt I had
especially
the
the lepers, all those people
something to live for, someone I
poorer
rural
who feel unwanted, unloved,
must not disappoint,” said Thomas
areas. Lou Xiaoying
uncared
Alva Edison. He was the youngest
supported
herself
society. People that have
of seven children and suff ered from
by picking through
become a burden to the
a learning disability. In the 1800s,
the things other people had thrown out. One of
society and are shunned by
there was not a lot of information
the things that she always took in was babies. The
everyone. Though she was
about learning disabilities or how to help people
Cultural Revolution and China’s one-child policy
a nun and did not have any
who had them. Instead of giving up hope that her
lead to parents abandon unwanted babies. “These
children of her own; the maternal message of love
son would ever be able to learn, Nancy Edison took
children need love and care. They are all precious
and care that was spread throughout her life and
matters into her own hands. She home-schooled
human lives,” she said. She recused or adopted 30
organizations gained her the nickname, “Mother
the young boy who would later go on to invent life
babies in addition to having a daughter of her own.
Teresa”
changing inventions, like the light bulb.
Sojourner Truth
“My mother was the making of me. She was so
for
more
for
throughout
What makes a mother a mother? Unconditional
In the 1800s, Sojourner Truth
support like Edison, dedication to carving out time
time
may have been the only black
like Andrews, selfl essness like Xiaoying, bravery like
consuming job; it’s often sporadic and
woman to sue a white man and
Sojourner, and love like Mother Teresa. Without
crazy. That did not stop Julie Andrews
win. Truth and her daughter fl ed
moms we would not have light; both literally and
from being a hands on mom, “always
slavery in 1826. After her escape,
fi guratively. Thank a mom this Mother’s Day for
there making eggs at fi ve o’clock in
she heard that her son had been
everything that they do.
Julie Andrews
Being
an
actress
is
a
Give your mom a love-fi lled family tree
Mother’s Day gifts were always the
hardest to pick out for my sister and I.
What do you get someone who deserves
•
Nintendo, the video
game maker, only
made playing cards
when it fi rst started.
• Shakespeare made
up more than 400
words in his plays.
Some of them we
still use regularly, like
“dawn,” “glow,” and
“unreal.”
• Armadillos give birth
in litters of four, either
all boys or all girls.
There’s never a mix.
• The fi rst moving
picture was created
to settle a bet over
whether all four of a
horse’s hooves left the
ground at the same
time.
Pink or red construction paper
Kid friendly scissors (or a non-mom
adult to help cut things out)
the world when all you can aff ord is a
Glue
scented candle? The answer we came up
Colored pencils
with was a handmade crafts.
Trace your hand from just below
Because it’s a gift for your mom, it
the wrist on brown construction paper.
needs to be something she does not need
Carefully cut it out and glue it onto the
to help you with. A simple craft idea is a
blue paper. Cut a strip of the green paper
tree made of hearts; “everyday the love I
and glue it along the bottom to be grass.
have for you grows,” or another growing
Cut the red or pink paper into about one
pun.
and a half inch strips. Fold them into a
What you’ll need:
heart and glue the ends together. When
Brown construction paper
they’ve dried glue them onto the brown
Blue construction paper
tree. After you’ve fi lled your tree with as
Green construction paper
many hearts as you want you can use the
colored pencils to decorate. Add a sun,
blades of grass, inspirational quote about
moms, a stick fi gure family, anything
you think the perfect present needs.
All content by LAUREN MURPHY
of No Adults Allowed