Stage mothering is a major problem, say those who work in the field.

"Most girls have had enough mothering at 15, but not you."

So from age 11 on, she found herself having to find a balance between mothering and middle school.

"I'm very good at mothering and being there for my children, but there's still this other part of me."

Bill argues with his mother about her lack of mothering.

"I could not show him that kind of mothering affection."

Women's thoughts on mothering are not their own original ideas.

A college education allows single mothers to buy some time for the important work of mothering.

Now that she wants to go back to Washington with a promotion, her mothering has become an issue in the race.

Polly had got caught up on her mothering for the time being.

She has been wonderful, no one could have cared more, but now I'm getting a little too much mothering.

It was like a mothering instinct, they suggested, a control thing.

She also has had to relearn what mothering is all about.

"I would say that mothering was your privilege, not his."

He recommends that married women with children under the age of 18 focus on mothering, rather than work outside the home.

They have to be the good mother, when they themselves may need mothering.

For girls the problem is compounded by the concept of mothering.

You never know, he might have become something else without her ugly mothering."

It had been a long time since he'd had mothering.

The child needed a bit of mothering, she decided.

She's a mothering type and he might need her.

She thinks he's a kitten and the mothering is doing him good.

She used to teach us that a child needs mothering and not a mother."

Two other pieces further the theme of mothering or nurturing.

"The most important thing that got me through this, aside from the mothering instinct, was my friends."

She and her mother still talk on the phone several times a week.

Until three years ago, I had a very different relationship with my mother.

You are always everything a mother should be and more.

The mother was often seen taking the boy to and from school.

The mother did not live with the family, according to the police.

They live with her mother who does not have a car, she said.

A mother of four says she needs a break from her kids.

One person who did not was the little boy's mother.

Look, he was 33 years old and still living with his mother.

Why did she want to be a mother at 20?

He had to leave school to find a job to support his mother.

My mother was going strong back then, full of life.

Children need a real mother, tell them what to do.

My mother was the one who took care of us.

We wanted to ask our mother but could not find her.

Looking like your mother is the last thing you want to do.

She would not say a word or look her mother in the face.

And the mother turned to the only American in the room.

The next morning, the mother went to see her son.

He looks at a mother and son across the car.

His mother told him the news when he was 10.

His mother asked him if he had made any new friends in school.

She tried to live with her mother, but they did not get along.

He called my mother and told her where I should go, everything.

Her mother could move the car later in the day.

I was an adult, very different in turn from the child she had mothered.

Both were not mothered well, and one had been sent back home, so far the other spared.

Even though she was fifteen months younger, she'd been mothering Paul for too long.

He had a little boy vulnerability that showed through his serious side, and made her feel like mothering him.

She has mothered three children with utmost care and success.

Nancy had once mothered a child and gave her up for adoption.

Not to mention mothering his children- Port entered the room.

You've done a fine job of mothering your girls, Mollie.

Some years after her death, it was revealed that she had mothered a son by a man whose name has never been released.

That you think being in charge of them means mothering them?

Since all new mothers need mothering themselves, they may expect their caregivers to provide that for them.

I'm a big girl now, I don't need to be protected or mothered.

Well, just at the moment she was more than happy to admit to mothering this brood.

It always surprised those who mothered Benjamin when he seduced them.

You think you'll have better job security by mothering the runt?"

But he did not want to seem to be mothering his curate, who was thirty years old.

The professor was unmarried and had never mothered, but I copied the comment down.

When males reach puberty, they show interest in mothering young infants.

Still massaging his hand, he mothered himself with sensible thoughts.

She was married to Grant for 22 years and mothered 12 children, 8 of whom survived to adulthood.

She's only five years older but she's always mothered him."

He mothered Millay, intent on providing her the quiet she needed.

Before long, she applied for the paying job of managing the greenhouse and was soon mothering 3,000 plants.

And for others the verdict is clear: working and mothering small children cannot mix.

Odd, but I can't remember mothering my own child.