Since Mother’s Day is coming up, I thought it would be nice to pay tribute to all the mothers out there and all the things they do for their kids. This graphic takes a playful look at some of the sacrifices average moms make in the interest of their children—for example, a new mom typically loses about three hours of sleep per night when they have a newborn. It also discusses other things we might not as readily thing of, like how many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches your mother may have made you by the time you reached high school (around 1,500).
Each mom is unique, but more often than not, our mothers have done more for us than we readily realize. I hope you enjoy this graphic, and that it inspires you to show some appreciation to your mom this Mother’s Day.
I love this. I am definitely going to share it on my Google+ page and facebook, thanks!
I love the infographs! How do you make them?
Salute to all moms!
Happy Mothers’ Day!
It’s interesting once you start having kids of your own and you get to see what your own mom must have went through. It really puts everything into perspective. My first kid is now only 5 months old so we’re in the middle of the no sleep, constant attention period. We haven’t reached soccer practice or pasta yet, but either way…it makes you want to say “Thanks Mom!”.
Good one frugal dad, I will posting this on my blog and facebook page. Happy mother’s day in advance to all the moms and moms to be.
A great infographic…I loved a bits and pieces of humor mixed in with facts!
Mary Margaret
This is great… I will be posting it on my blog tomorrow for Six Word Saturday…Thanks for stopping by my blog!
I will definitely be posting this for Mother’s Day this year at Live Well Simply
Love this blog, love all the artwork it’s clean and crisp and really interesting . Great work need more blogs like this
What a great way to remind us that our moms are such a huge part of our lives!
Shared with my 9 year old daughter and here’s what she said: “About the homework part, that would be a whole lot of money out of my allowance! The whole thing was as funny as could be. Whoever created this is a MAMG (Math And Mother Genius)”
Thanks for stopping by my blog… Your graphic is wonderful! I’ll be more than happy to share this graphic goodness.
I remember my mom spending hours with us during school days. Excellent infographic. Jason you made mother’s day special.
The one thing you can’t calculate is the number of years a mother loses worrying about their children. Mom’s are great.
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my wife, my friends and everyone else who has been blessed to be mother’s in their own special way! This information is entertaining as well as informative and looking at the cost being a recent father a bit scary. Anyway great post thanks a bunch!
I love the infographic and appreciate you posting the sources that were used to make it, as well. Great job!
This really makes me appreciate the crap that my wife goes through…I thought I had it hard by going to work every day…
This definitely makes me appreciate my mom a LOT more. It’s crazy how much sacrifice our moms make for us.
Wow. I knew that it was expensive to bring up a child, but that’s mega bucks! I think i’ll call my mom now and let her know just how great she is….
This is so cute! (and absolutely alarming, for some of them).
My husband needs to see this! He does not understand how crazy my everyday life is as a mother and wife.
I love that graphic! When I was growing up in Mississippi, we had my parents, both sets of THEIR parents, plus us kids all in the same house – a real extended family. I can’t count the number of times one or the other of my grandmothers would remind me (or my sisters) about how much we owed our mother – some of the reminders in the graphic brought those to mind. And if it wasn’t our grandparents, it was our teachers or our preachers. I think the Long Beach motto should have been, “You’re only here because of your mom!” God Bless all the moms out there – of all ages!
Holy cows! That dollar amount has sure gone up since my growing up years when my grandmas used to remind us kids to behave because our parents were going to spend “at least” $10,000 a piece on each of us before we were grown. Of course, back then, $10,000 was a lot for anyone in Long Beach, MS!
It is fairly hard to think that the number of single mother out there now under the age of 30 is only growing more and more every year. These young women are setting themselves up for failure in a financial aspect.
Very good infographic.
Very informative… I will definitely be reposting (with credit of course!)