I’ve Changed Mother’s Day Completely: It’s About Being Grateful that My Kids Made Me a Mom

As a parenting coach with three children, I’ve come to realize it’s up to me to honor myself. Years ago, I started telling my family what I wanted for Mother’s Day to avoid (the multiple years of) disappointment, resentment, and self-pity.

It crushed me and made me envious when friends told me that their children served them breakfast in bed, gave them flowers, wrote poems, or gave them a spa treatment courtesy of their husbands. I wondered how I had failed to teach my husband and children h...