--- description: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Mother's Day title: Mother's Day: 100 Year Old Moms Share Advice About Motherhood image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6a189e310b8ca3/69868ed2e53abae3d94d2846/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-11-10-47-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 100-Year-Olds Moms Share Insights On What It Means to Be a Mother by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2014 3:25 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2014 3:25 PM CUT This Mother’s Day, why not take some advice from three women who’ve been moms for a very, very long time? In honor of the 100th anniversary of the holiday, Mashable [sat down with three centenarians](http://mashable.com/2014/05/10/100-year-old-moms/ "undefined") to discuss what motherhood means to them. The women reflect on the great parts of being a mom along with the hardest parts — like raising children during wartime. “When you see your kid go away, and then you see the papers with the casualties,” Sadie Adler says. “It was shattering.” Adler also offered the following advice to today’s parents: “Listen to your children and treat them as a grown-up.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/"},"headline":"100-Year-Olds Moms Share Insights On What It Means to Be a Mother","datePublished":"2014-05-11T15:25:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:34.450Z","description":"In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Mother's Day","url":"https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Children","Parents","Videos","Holidays","Viral video","Moms","Mother's Day"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6a189e310b8ca3/69868ed2e53abae3d94d2846/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-11-10-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6a189e310b8ca3/69868ed2e53abae3d94d2846/screen-shot-2014-05-11-at-11-10-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-05-11 at 11.10.47 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/","name":"100-Year-Olds Moms Share Insights On What It Means to Be a Mother"}}]}] ```