--- title: Mother's Day: 100 Year Old Moms Share Advice About Motherhood description: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Mother's Day canonical: https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-11T15:25:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:34.450Z og:title: Mother's Day: 100 Year Old Moms Share Advice About Motherhood og:description: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Mother's Day og:url: https://time.com/95353/100-year-old-moms-mothers-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: 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=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-05-11 at 11.10.47 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mother's Day: 100 Year Old Moms Share Advice About Motherhood twitter:description: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Mother's Day twitter:image: 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=16:9 ---  # 100-Year-Olds Moms Share Insights On What It Means to Be a Mother by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 11, 2014 3:25 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 11, 2014 3:25 PM UTC 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/) 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"}}]}] ```