Mom Says It Best: Little Kids, Little Problems; Then They Grow

ACROSS AMERICA — Danielle Coffey can hardly be faulted for giving cancer a verbal middle finger.

The Montgomeryville-Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Patch reader’s mother, “the strongest, best person” she knows, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic last year. She’s fighting, and just made it past the one-year anniversary of her diagnosis.

The best advice she ever gave her daughter is spot on in any case, but especially considering all she’s going through now:

“When your kids are little, the problems are little,” she said. “When they’re big, the problems are bigger.”

Coffey is among Patch readers sharing the best advice they ever got from their moms in our extended celebration of Mother’s Day.

Come back to Across America Patch every day through Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 9 — for more of these morsels of wisdom we can relate to and smile about as we think of our own moms.

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