Senior Moments: Remembering the wisdom and compassion of mothers

As my mother told the story, she was a nervous new mother trying to feed her baby his first tastes of solid food.

Mom had left a job she loved and did quite well to be a stay-at-home mother. I don’t think that term was even used in the 1940s when “mom” and “stay at home” were pretty much synonymous.

Her boss valued her work so much that he had offered to pay for a nanny, so she could return to work after the baby was born. But mom couldn’t find anyone to live up to her standards...