Though it’s hard to choose, I am 90% sure that Annie Hall is my all time most favorite movie. It worked on one level when I was kid seeing it for the first time. Then, as I got older and got all the adult jokes, it worked on another level. I have seen it about 35 times (yes, I have seen Gone With the Wind more, but Annie Hall has bit more relevance and realism).
One of the many great lines is when Woody Allen’s character, Alvie, says to his friend played by Tony Roberts, “Everything our parents told us was good for us is bad: Sun, milk, college.”
This is another reminder that we can’t trust our parents, which means our kids can’t trust us.
Being a step mom myself ( sounds so EVIL to hear myself called the step mom ) I totally see things in our family differently from my husband, I lke to think i have a little more perspective on things regarding his kids from his former marriage, but I’m sure that when our little one arrives ….in a few weeks all the perspective will be thrown right out the window and I’ll become part of the insanity that is being a parent. Perhaps it’s a nicer place to be!
Oh, but your mom’s right, you ARE fabulous.
There’s no one like you, that’s for sure. I love it when your mom and sister make appearances, they are both so charismatic and lovely. Maybe it’s not so much that parents can’t be trusted, as the rest of the world can only handle so much of the miraculous and beautiful. As a mom, I see the same beauty and preciousness in all kids, and as I get older I’m awed by the full range of developmental stages…from young adult to middle aged adult/child. I often forget that I’ll be parenting GROWN children for the majority of our time, and then I freak out because, how will I know what to do?
Anyway, Beatrice, when you have your own little one, your step kids will appear to you in a whole new from-birth-to-present light.
thanks, thanks. I’m a step mom too so I hear you. You also see the parental flaw pretty clearly.
Congrats on the new baby!
Daphne – this one made me sad because, to me, what you are pillorying as a parental lack of perspective is, simply put, what I call “mother love” — a feeling I have not known since my mother died when I was 16. And it is such an irreplaceable thing that it is, in fact, the most enduring memory I have of my mother – she thought I rocked, no matter what. She cared about all those stupid things no one would even think to ask about. My well-being fundamentally mattered to her. I get that feeling, now, from my daughter – and while I know it’s a stage she’ll outgrow, her belief in my awesomeness is the closest thing to mother love i have found. Just another perspective, for what it’s worth. Now go hug your mom, because she IS awesome.
OH, I hear you. When you hear about parents that don’t have that kind of love for their kids I figure they are mentally ill.
This is cute and clever.
Of course, your mother does know best.
I just caught you on your Pulse Network with Ronnie Butler as your guest.
Such a good show, you’re both such great performers and
I loved the fashion commentary at the beginning.
Well done.
Daphne: you NEVER fail to make me laugh out loud.
Daphne.. lovely video.
My mother was… mentally ill. She had to be. She was always berating me on how much she hated me, how she wished I was never born.. I ruined her life blah blah blah.
When she died a couple years ago.. I felt relief and said GOOD RIDDANCE in my head.
With my son, I’m deathly afraid of becoming my mother because… well I don’t know how to do this thing. I have no example. So when I see people who exemplify what it is to be a good mother.. like yours.. I memorize every single word, mannerism, and body language so I can emulate it and perhaps maybe one day, my children will at least say.. something nice about me when I die…
so cute! I couldn’t stop looking at Rex and your mom is adorable.