Motherhood — It’s a Crapshoot!

Gaye Kick
3 min readMay 6, 2020

In 2010 I was asked to be a Mother’s Day speaker. My children were grown and gone with children of their own so I wrote a ten-minute talk about my three rules for “Mothering, not Smothering”.

  1. Have a sense of humor when raising children. Without it, you’ll go down — fast!
  2. Wrap your teenagers in a positive bubble, then release it and trust they’ll be okay. If not, you’ll never get any…

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Gaye Kick

Writer of humorous, relatable, personal experience anecdotes and poetry at www.gayellenkick.com. Author of Releasing Religion: A Minister's Wife Goes Rogue