3 remarkable facts about mothers

It is drilled into you from kindergarten: never arrive empty-handed on Mother's Day. It starts when you are small with finger painting and ends with sweaty armpits at five to five at the perfume shop on Saturday afternoon. A self-made Mother's Day mug no longer compensates for the mischief you pull at a certain age. On this day of mothers, we zoom in on these special creatures.

From the age of 33, you as a daughter increasingly resemble your mother, according to scientific research. It seems that we let go of the resistance to looking like our mother, and this process is actually accelerated when you become a mother yourself.

Research shows that women who live close to a mother or mother-in-law are more likely to have more children themselves. This is definitely one in the category: remarkable. They also have them quite quickly one after the other. A father or father-in-law nearby has no influence on this. You also immediately know how those relationships stand. Also good to know: the better your relationship with your mother-in-law, the better your own relationship.

The word ‘mother’ dates back to the Ice Age. Yes, you might not think about it right away, but it makes sense that a name was once invented. Linguists conducted research and it turns out that 15,000 years ago there was already a word in circulation that suspiciously resembles mother with the same meaning.

We have been venerating mothers for centuries, Quest tells us, but Mother's Day as we celebrate it now has existed since 1908 and comes from America. Leave it to the Yankees to commercialize love for mothers. To keep it simple, almost the whole world celebrates it on a different day. We do it like the Americans on the second Sunday of May, but the UK ties it to Easter, Argentina to the feast of Mary Mother of God, and in Belgium, they celebrate it twice. Okay, our southern neighbors clearly win the battle in motherly love.

Source: Quest, Vox