This Sunday is Mother’s Day (this is your reminder!). Here are some ideas from Life Kit to make the moms in your life feel loved and appreciated. 💌 Send a hand-written letter. If the mothers in your life aren’t local, try sending a note instead. You can sneak gifts into your letters, says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. Think of flat things you can fit into your envelope, like stickers, pressed flowers, tea bags, paper incense, lottery tickets and iron-on patches, Syme says. More letter-writing tips. Get a thoughtful gift. Writer and gift-giver extraordinaire Rachel Wilkerson Miller says gifts can do a lot: “They can solve a problem. They can make somebody's life a little easier in some way. They can bring them a little joy or delight or pleasure. They can make them feel less alone. They can make them feel seen.” More tips to be an inspired gift giver. 🌴Plan a fun weekend activity. Treat Mother’s Day as a mini-vacation with a trip to the beach or another activity usually reserved for vacations in your family. Cassie Mogilner-Holmes, associate professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, says treating our weekends like mini-vacations actually changes our behaviors. People who do this stay in bed a little longer or cuddle with their special someone a little more, or spend a little more time eating and less time on housework and job responsibilities. More ideas for a fun weekend. 🧘 Give mom a little alone time by taking the kids out for the morning. If you aren’t satisfying your need for alone time, “there might be a cost,” says Robert Coplan of Carleton University in Canada. “Just like there's a cost of being lonely if you don't satisfy your need to belong." What constitutes the right amount of solitude varies person to person, Coplan says, but when you aren't getting enough time on your own, you may begin to feel more irritable, anxious or put out. How solitude can help you regulate your mood. |
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