"Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Mother and Child Reunion
No child can truly realize the unconditional love and feeling of commitment that a mother has to protect her children. Most mother's do not have a full understand of the love that swells over them after the birth of a child it is an over whelming bond that makes those stories of a mother picking a car up to save her child believable. And while the union of mother and child is amazing and miraculous, it also can have its dark side.
As children, and even into adulthood, there is a tendency to fight the lessons mothers try to teach and the advice they try to give without giving any consideration as to what life experiences of theirs may have prompted this advice. Children do not recognize the mere fact that if it is a cold day and they do not have their sweater on no one thinks, "Who is that child's father?" They wonder, "Who is that child's incompetent mother?" …