--- title: Letters From Mom description: To celebrate Mother's Day, TIME asked influential moms to write open letters to their children canonical: https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-07T10:04:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:00:15.881Z article:section: World og:title: Letters From Mom og:description: To celebrate Mother's Day, TIME asked influential moms to write open letters to their children og:url: https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f97940532126757/6987ee90a988ca09966b0886/tina-knowles.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: tina-knowles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Letters From Mom twitter:description: To celebrate Mother's Day, TIME asked influential moms to write open letters to their children twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f97940532126757/6987ee90a988ca09966b0886/tina-knowles.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Letters From Mom by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 7, 2015 10:04 AM CUT  Cliff Watts by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 7, 2015 10:04 AM CUT FOR FULL VERSIONS OF THESE LETTERS AND MORE, GO TO [time.com/momletters](http://time.com/collection/letters-from-mom/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/"},"headline":"Letters From Mom","datePublished":"2015-05-07T10:04:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:00:15.881Z","description":"To celebrate Mother's Day, TIME asked influential moms to write open letters to their children","url":"https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f97940532126757/6987ee90a988ca09966b0886/tina-knowles.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f97940532126757/6987ee90a988ca09966b0886/tina-knowles.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tina-knowles","caption":"","creditText":"Cliff Watts","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":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3849960/letters-from-mom/","name":"Letters From Mom"}}]}] ```