10. Lorelai Gilmore- Lorelai Gilmore is a great mom. Even though she got pregnant as a sixteen-year-old, she is still a GREAT mom. I mean, she could have gone crazy and moved to a trailer park and started smoking and wearing housedresses. But she didn't. She got a job, and took care of her kid, and she doesn't let anyone tell her what to do. She's what all teen moms think they'll be, when they move "temporarily" to a trailer park.
9. Frankie Heck- Frankie Heck is a superhero. She also kind of reminds me of how my parents are, because they're always saying, "Oh, we need to change this, we need to do that, we need to go on walks together and stress out about laundry." And they spend so much time worrying about all that other stuff that they don't realize our family is okay the way it is, no matter how much we have trouble getting along. Frankie does the same thing. She tries to force memories on her family and make them like the Donahews, and then she realizes, her family may keep clothes in the dishwasher, and have to turn on the toaster to make the TV work, but they're still a good family, and they still get by in their own way.
8. Sally Jackson from the Percy Jackson Series- Sally Jackson is a single mom phenom. I'm serious. First, she had a kid with freaking Poseidon, which is already totally unfair. Next, she's really, really pretty. Because moms who date Greek gods have to be pretty, even after they have a kid. And then there's that whole bit where she stayed in abusive relationships to protect her son from evil monsters and things, which sounds kind of twisted, but this is fiction, so you have to not think about it. And of course, the blue food. Which is awesome. I wish I could go into a grocery store and just buy a bunch of blue food and be able to live on it. That would be amazing.
7. The Mom from Burn Notice- I don't watch that show all that much, but I LOVE her. I think her name is Madeleine or something. Anyway, Micheal Westen's mom is awesome. Whenever he needs help, she's always there, but she rags on him the whole time anyway. I'm surprised she hasn't keeled over from lung cancer by now from all that smoking. But she's probably the most realistic portrayal of a mom whose kid is a spy that there is.
6. Mrs. Hudson from BBC Sherlock- I know she isn't technically Sherlock or John's mother, but who cares? No matter what she says, she's more than a landlady. She looks after those two more than any of us know. The whole time she goes around cleaning 221B in her British Old Lady Nanny Mcphee dresses, she's always saying, "I'm not your housekeeper." But she does it anyway. She's smart, she knows where all of Sherlock's secret hiding places are, and when that American thug broke in and tried to hold Mrs. Hudson hostage, Sherlock pushed him out of a window. Twelve times. You know what Sherlock says: "Mrs. Hudson, leave Baker Street? England would fall!"
5. Marmee from Little Women- Okay. Fine. Call me a sentimental classics-loving teenager. I don't care. She's one of the best moms in the Lit World. Marmee was an understanding mom, her advice actually worked and made sense, and she was always there even when one of the girls did something really stupid, like burn off their hair with an iron. And Marmee was always very calm and incredibly open minded for a Civil War woman. So there.
4. The Mom from The Blind Side- First: She's Sandra Bullock. Second: She's southern. THIRD: She's a football mom. I mean, it's kind of a law that she has to be a good mom. And if it's not, there should be. Every mom with teenagers totally aspires to be her. And Sandra Bullock.
3. Cheri Hamilton- Her daughter was attacked by a shark, and she totally saved her daughter from depression and going through a manic goth stage. She even used that statue of Venus to make her daughter feel better. She's a great role model, and Helen Hunt plays her really well in the movie.
(Helen Hunt) (Cheri Hamilton)
2. Mrs. Weasley- Um, she killed Bellatrix Lestrange. 'Nuff said.
1. Whoever Your Mom Is- You owe a lot to your mom. Namely, your very existence. She does your laundry, she feeds you, she lets you live in her house, or did for about eighteen years. So don't screw it up, because if they all quit one day, we'd be completely lost. We would have to make our own food! And clean! And do all kinds of other stuff we're normally too lazy to do!
All of which is just to say, be good to your moms. Show them you care. Because one day, you'll be doing your own laundry, and they'll be laughing at you.
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