Ladies, what was the time when you realised your mothers are cool / fun people?

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1. I think it depends on the definition on fun/cool. I wouldn’t call my mum fun or cool but I also wouldn’t call myself that either.

   She probably enjoys things that other people may think are cool and fun, while others see it as drill and boring

2. When she introduced us to great music from various genres

3. I’ve always known I suppose. My parents are both a part of the Divine Nine and met at a frat party. That automatically let me know these are fun, crazy people.

4. She’s been my mum for almost 40 years, and she’s not a cool fun person. She’s a lovely, sweet little garden gnome. Her biggest loves are straw hats, flowers and sourdough starters. Wonderful lady, not at all cool 😂💐

5. I never assumed otherwise.

6. Always known, but it become more apparent when I meet mothers of some of my friends, most toxic people I’ve ever meet.

7. Always I guess? She’s a professional chef and pastry chef. We have the similar tastes in music and have gone to lots of concerts together.

8. My mom actually is a lot of fun. When I reached adulthood, she completely changed and stopped trying to tell me what to do and we just became equals/friends. We were always friends but she was also a good mom who understood that sometimes the parent can’t just be a friend – but once I was an adult she really respected me and didn’t try to tell me what to do.

   Because of that I can tell her anything w/o fear of judgment and she is really open with me telling me things she did at my age. We still like to shop together in person or online sometimes, and she gets my fashion sense and I hers. I took a yoga class with her too.

9. My mom has always been the cool mom. I was very jealous of her as a teen because I would come home to find my alleged friends already there hanging out with her. Not waiting on me to get home or anything. Just there, with mom. Chillin. Lol.

10. The summer before I left for uni a friend and I and our Mom’s took a road trip from Southern Cali to Bozeman, Montana. We had the best time, I saw a side to my Mom I’d never seen before. Especially when we ended up in a tiny town in MT called Ennis, population 505 at that time, but it had a bar and there were about a dozen Harley’s parked out front. Both our Mom’s looked at each other and screamed “BIKER’S!!!!”

    So here were two 18 year olds and their 50-something Mom’s who were having a great time stuffing quarters in the juke box and dancing with the bikers to 60’s and 70’s rock music. I realised at that moment my Mom used to be young too, before she married, had 4 kids and juggled a stressful full time job on top of it all.

11. My mum has always been my best friend but not in a weird no boundries kind of way. Now at 30, she still is and I just feel so lucky.

12. When she finally told me she went to prison for two years and went through horrible conditions because when she was 18 she was politically active in the movements in a revolution and the government arrested her for it. Can’t get sicker than that

13. Probably when we were less of her responsibility, although i have an active dad my mum basically provided all the child care, the less responsibility we were the more we became friends

14. When we go clubbing together

15. When I realized I was basically becoming her and I know for a fact I’m fun and cool.

16. Mine isn’t, so all these other commenters stories make me happy there are cool/fun/nice moms out there 🙂

17. My mum died when I was 10 but I always knew she was cool cos she wasn’t like other mums, she didn’t wear aprons, makeup or perfume and she weren’t boring she had a good dry sense of humour, she liked South park and watched it with me when I was little when it first came out she also watched shows like father Ted and Coogans run, she recommended my sister watch buffy the vampire slayer, liked the Daria show, had Ali G tapes and wore jeans and boots (my mum looked like the character Lol in This Is England) she listened to quality bands like The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Oasis, Blondie etc when she wasn’t on ten ton of drugs or drink and being abusive she was really funny, imaginative and would speak to me about things no other mums talk to their little kids about like drug trips, she’d take me and my sister to all nighter house parties and we’d sleep over, one time she gave me a valentines day card to give to some boy at my school, she was a practising witch and was always getting into some sort of chaotic hilarity and had the best stories to tell, she’d shoplift, bunk trains, let me skive off school, etc she never cooked a roast dinner or did any motherly things but when she wanted to be she could be really cool, was it the best parenting? Definitely not but yeah she had her moments where I was proud to have her as my mum and she was fkn cool.