Happy Mother's Day.

Today I'm getting together with family to celebrate my Mother

and my Grandmother.

and I should call my paternal grandmother, too,

and probably facebook my step mother.

Some interesting reading for Mother's Day involving Mother's role in education and childhood from all across the globe:

 The Heavyweight Girls of Manipur, by Thingnam Anjulika Samom, an article that links a mother's social status and literacy to a decrease in feeding girls less than their brothers during food scarcity in India.  

Building Better Kids by Kevin Drum, a Mother Jones article that discusses the link between a child's academic achievement and the education of the child's mother.

The Importance of Tang Dynasty Mothers to the Family Education by Haiwen Guo and Zuoliang Wang. 

Mother's Education and Child Health: Is There a Nurturing Effect?  by Yuyu Chen and Hongbin Li.



and because I prefer reading and writing when there is constant noise in the background: 

Leadbelly "Mother's Blues"

"Motherless Children Have a Hard Time" by Blind Willie Johnson.