WHAT happens when daughters become the mothers?

‘Today, we have a reversal of roles. You now take care of Dad and me, and I thank you for that’

For Mother’s Day, I asked senior moms for special messages—expressions of love and appreciation, lessons learned and imparted, recipes for happiness— for their daughters, now mothers themselves, and, as such, Mothers’ Day cocelebrators.

The bond between mother and daughter begins in their shared gender, in a fundamental sense of recognition and identification. The bond is strong enough for mom to guide daughter through the early stages of life and love, but is even stronger when daughter marries and becomes a mother herself.

The uniqueness of the relationship doesn’t end there; it goes on and on, until the roles are completely reversed, and daughter becomes mother, nurturer, to her own mother. Thus, the magic cycle has come full circle!