Herman: John L. Herman Jr., Author

Thanks Mom's...

My mother passed away just a few years ago after a full life reaching her mid-eighties. She raised six children as a stay-at-home mom, giving us a broad base of exposure to any and everything.

We piled into her car and went to the Zoo in Philadelphia, all of the Monuments and Museums in Washington, DC, down to Ocean City, Maryland, off to the theme parks in rural Frederick, and it was nothing to drive thirty miles to the most interesting ice cream store she could find. My mother was involved in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Brownies, and she made every baseball and football game.

My mother was deeply involved in our education…showing up for every parent day, every teacher’s meeting, and checking our homework every night. She taught us to bowl, was competitive beyond belief at every board and card game and took thousands of photographs to document our lives.
Probably the greatest gift she gave her children was the idea that the world had much to offer and you could involve yourself in as much of it as you wanted. She never held us back, always supported trying new things, and staunchly held to our Catholic upbringing.

By no means was my mother a saint. But she was a great mother. And my children have the same wonderful gift as good I had as a child…the mother of my children is a great mother as well.

• Posted: 7 May 2009
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• Category: Business success

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