--- title: To Celebrate Mother’s Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children description: Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I'm sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name.... canonical: https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-05T10:19:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:40.987Z og:title: To Celebrate Mother’s Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children og:description: Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I'm sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name.... og:url: https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: To Celebrate Mother’s Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children twitter:description: Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I'm sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name.... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # To Celebrate Mother's Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 5, 2016 10:19 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 5, 2016 10:19 AM UTC Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I’m sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name. You wouldn’t want to be Athena Feta Mount Olympus Stephanopoulos, would you? Elliott is my grandmother (your great-grandmother’s family name), and Harper was a gorgeous word I dreamt. I woke up one morning and shouted, “Harper!” and that’s what we named you… For full versions of this letter and more, visit time.com/momletters2016 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/"},"headline":"To Celebrate Mother's Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children","datePublished":"2016-05-05T10:19:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:40.987Z","description":"Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper First let me just say, I'm sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name....","url":"https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/","keywords":["Living"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4319114/mothers-day-letters/","name":"To Celebrate Mother's Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children"}}]}] ```