FFQF: Mother Made Me

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With the onset of a new month, there’s a new theme for the FFQF! This month, it’s “the importance of mother.” I’m not very knowledgeable of what the Founding Fathers said about mothers, so this may prove to be a trying month for me! But I do know one! And whn I think of mothers, I think of what John Quincy Adams said of his mother, Abigail Adams:

“All that I am my mother made me.”

I believe JQA meant that in a good way, lol.

JQA was basically raised by his mother. His father, John Adams, was away from home for years at a time, serving as delegate for the Continental Congress, as ambassador to France, then England, and then as vice-president and our second president. John Adams was essentially one of our nation’s fathers, while JQA was trained and developed by his wise mother. I think it’s really neat that Abigail has been recognized as a successful mother and patriot. It is the utmost honor for her children to have risen up and call her blessed.