For Mother’s Day, Classic Mom-isms
5/10/202630 min
For Mother’s Day, we asked you about your “Mom mantras”: the oft-repeated mottos or go-to expressions that your moms have said over the years. In partnership with the Well desk, we received thousands of submissions, full of sayings that ranged from wise to funny to profound.
In today’s episode of “The Sunday Daily,” we feature your “Mom mantras,” and the host Rachel Abrams calls her mother to ask about hers.
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First 90 secondsBen Frumin0:00
Hey, it's Ben Frumin, editor-in-chief of Wirecutter. We put together the ultimate moving guide, and I wanted to find out a few of our writers' favorite tips.
Speaker 10:08
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Speaker 20:12
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Speaker 30:18
Make sure you have towels on hand. You don't want to end up taking a shower and using a dirty sock to dry off. [laughs] Yeah.
Ben Frumin0:24
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Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest0:30
[phone ringing] Hello?
Rachel Abrams· Host0:37
Hi, Mom.
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest0:38
Hi, honey. How are you?
Rachel Abrams· Host0:40
I'm good. How are you?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest0:41
Fine. Thank you. What's going on?
Rachel Abrams· Host0:44
Um, I told you we're doing this Mother's Day episode, right?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest0:47
Yes, you did.
Rachel Abrams· Host0:49
Okay. So the idea for it is that we've been collecting all of these expressions that moms say, like mom mantras we're sort of calling them, little bits of advice that moms repeat over time.
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:01
Aw.
Rachel Abrams· Host1:01
Isn't that cute?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:02
Yes.
Rachel Abrams· Host1:03
Can you guess what I've told people yours is?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:06
No, I can't.
Rachel Abrams· Host1:08
Really?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:09
No, I can't. What is it?
Rachel Abrams· Host1:11
"These are the good old days."
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:13
Oh, of course. [laughs] Right. Yes, of course.
Rachel Abrams· Host1:16
Which you mean it like regardless of whatever's happening, no matter how old you are, you're always gonna look back at like this moment as the good old days, right?
Alice Chesler Abrams· Guest1:25
Yes, because we look back at things and we say, "Oh, this was so