This is long but worth reading...........my daughter gave me this when she got married.<br />
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                                 Meanest mother in the world<br />
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I had the meanest Mother in the world. While other kids had candy for breakfast, I had to eat cereal, eggs and toast. While other kids had cake and candy for lunch, I had a sandwich. As you can guess, my dinner was different from other kids&#39; dinners,too.<br />
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My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing.<br />
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I am ashamed to admit it, but she actually had the nerve to break the child labor law. She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make the beds and learn how to cook. That woman must have stayed awake nights<br />
thinking up things for us kids to do. And she insisted we tell the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth.<br />
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By the time we were teenagers she was much wiser and our lives became unbearable. None of this tooting the car horn for us to come running;she embarassed us to no end insisting our friends come to the door to get us.<br />
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I forgot to mention that most of our friends were allowed to date at the mature age of 12 or 13 but our old fashioned Mother refused to let us date until we were 15. She really raised a bunch of squares. None of us were ever arrested for shoplifting or busted for dope. And who do we have to thank for this? You&#39;re right, our mean Mother.<br />
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I will raise my children to stand a littler straighter and taller and I will be  secretly tickled to pieces  when my children call me mean. I thank God for the meanest Mother in the world. The world needs more mean Mothers like mine.<br />
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This came from my daughter who is now 41 and is raising her kids exactly as she was raised........<br />
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So Cheryl do I think you are mean???????????   NOT