The residential aged care facility Anne Zausa and Mary Walls call home prepared a high tea celebration in honour of this year’s mother’s day.
But even at 88-years-old, Werribee local Anne said she never stops worrying about her three children.
“Being a mother is hard work, it keeps you on the ball from the day they’re born,” Anne said.
“My own children are grandparents now, but to me they’re still my kids. You never stop being a mother.”
Anne believes being a good parent is finding a balance between responsibility and a lot of love, and raising children to be self-reliant.
“I think even as parents you have to teach your children self-respect, they are after all, people,” Anne said.
Mary’s family of six kids also grew up in Werribee, and the 94-year-old says modern motherhood has its share of differences.
“I don’t envy them these days, they have to earn money with wages being so low and everything else so expensive,” Mary said.
“I think they’ve really got it tough, [but] they love being mothers.”
Mary believes the most important gift a child can give to their parents, not just during mother’s day, is time.
“The parents love their kids and they want to be with them, I’m sure that’s a general feeling,” Mary said.
