Prologue If there is a kind word in a shaky time
Structure and Use of This Book

Chapter 1: The Universe of the Strange and Beautiful Child
- To love you exactly

01 Children learn through love.
02 Mom, you can't do that
03 Adults as seen by children
04 When you love your child unconditionally
05 There were also those of us
06 What Children and Spathiphyllum Have in Common
07 Hug me just one more time
08 What Children Do When They Don't Know Their Own Minds
09 It is possible only if you have faith in people.
10 Praise that puts pressure on children
11 When did I forget the attitude of admiration?
12 Children should be able to grieve too.
13 True conversation only takes place in a relationship of equals.
14 The Real Reasons Why Studying Is Hard
15 There is no play for an unloved child.
16 How much will I learn today?

Chapter 2 If you ask how to love
- Sentences that firmly support wavering parents

17 The person who became a hill for the child to lean on
18 It is better not to do it once than to try.
19 Someone being kind every day
20 If you love and treat them with affection
21 Belief that it can be accepted
22 The Royal Road to Parenting
23 The ability to create one's own world
24 Empathy
25 My love, my joy
26 If you put a small stone on the kitchen shelf
27 Slow understanding is not a matter of right or wrong.
28 The child needs to jump off the swing.
29 Rather than trying to do something well when you can't do it,
30 Adolescents should be able to stand up to their parents and win.
31 If Mom Hadn't Been Clumsy
32 What parents should teach their children is not anxiety.
33 Seven Things to Keep in Mind When Teaching Reading
34 When you go out into the world, no one will say, "You are first."

Chapter 3: Between Brilliant Happiness and Deep Solitude
- The joys and sorrows of motherhood we desperately wanted to hear.

35 To me, the smell of a baby
36 Beings that illuminate the world
37 It takes countless hours together to learn how to be alone.
38 The value of happiness given by children
39 Only to my mother, only to my child
40 What I say to you is ultimately what I say to myself.
41 When I am free from the burden of trying to shape my child according to my will
42 Everything worthwhile is difficult
43 Raising a child
44 It means that mom has to be very brave.
45 Ah, is this what it means to become an adult?
46 Actually, the child is holding me
47 Always makes me helpless
48 I walk the road, afraid even of raindrops.

Chapter 4 Your World Is Still Beautiful
- For our days to become bigger and deeper

49 Becoming a parent is a process
50 Before the pain, there was the terrible loneliness
51 I need to learn how to be myself again
52 Time to strike a new balance
53 My day as a mother is not a given.
54 There is no relationship where you can always love someone.
55 Mistakes and failures are also precious.
56 Imperfect me is the real me
57 The voice allowed to the mother
58 Children are not a canvas on which to paint their parents' dreams.
59 They cannot even imagine the depth of this love.
60 A World Where Mothers Disappear
61 So that the mother does not become the identity itself
62 Creating my own world
63 The body does not turn back, but moves forward.

Chapter 5: Greetings to you, who was my everything
- Time to think about your parents as they become parents

64 The smell of cooking rice when the sun goes down
65 Now, when I see my mom, I feel a sense of camaraderie.
66 A mother is often like a daughter and sometimes like a mother.
67 Maybe Mom just wanted to give me fine dirt
68 Mom, Dad, there was a time when life was scary too.
69 Actually, I get angry almost every day
70 Mothers are also failures
71 I wanted to find your name
72 I know how bright that person is.
73 Isn't it sad and beautiful that we are like that?
74 After my mother passed away

Chapter 6: When you want to ask when you will become an adult
- Time to learn about life with your child

75 Life is about growth
76 Aren't adults also beings with many possibilities?
77 Becoming an adult
78 Adult Responsibilities
79 'Golden' is not the cause, but the effect.
80 Children should not be exposed to rain
81 Life requires priorities.
82 The most basic love I can give myself
83 To perfectly hide your dislike
84 Acquiring Goodness
85 On the Affectionate Heart
86 Getting older
87 Even if it is something you cannot receive now
88 There is beauty and joy in growing older.

Chapter 7 I hope something really good awaits us tomorrow.
- Sentences about life that I want to tell my children

89 Find what you want to do, and do it diligently.
90 About something I truly love
91 Time to move on to the next question
92 The most shining moment
93 Seeds know how to wait
94 Meaning is necessary to live well.
95 Be a patient optimist rather than a resigned pessimist.
96 It's not that person who changes, it's my heart
97 To love someone is
98 Instead of the common saying to do your best
99 Life is about finding a way through all the paradoxes.
100 things I regret after living
101 Life is an indescribably beautiful blessing

Works included in this book
My own collection of sentences

To love more powerfully,
In my time with my child
101 Days of Gift-giving

"Moms Need Kind Words" looks into the life of a mother and speaks to her kindly.
There's a lot of talk about the greatness of motherhood, but few stories fully explore what it means to be a mother and the lives mothers lead.
How daunting and heavy it is to take responsibility for a being until the end, how confusing it is when the deep love for a child and the sadness of losing oneself intersect, how the isolation of mothers deepens in the perception that care and effort are taken for granted…
"Moms Need Kind Words" is a book filled with profound sentences that warmly and meticulously discuss the bright and dark sides of living with children and the impact it has on us throughout our lives.


Knowing how many intense questions each mother carries as they walk their path to becoming a mother, I wanted to create a trustworthy milestone with good stories found in every corner of life.
Some moments in life are worth lingering over, and I hope to enjoy those moments deeply and quietly by reading and writing the delicately thoughtful sentences of writers.

_In the text

The author, a mother of 12 years and the author of eight essays, began to transcribe the stories of mothers, wondering, "Why hasn't anyone told me this is what it's like to be a mother?"
The more I wrote, the clearer the time given to me became.
Through her writing, the author discovered the meaning of being a mother and the days she would live as a mother, and included the sentences that gave her strength in “Moms Need Kind Words.”


From humanities to philosophy, literature, essays, self-improvement, drama, and interviews…
If you read and write a page of touching sentences from various genres every day, not only will your days become more fulfilling, but the meaning of your days as a mother will also become more deeply engraved in your mind.


From understanding the child's mind
How to love your child completely,
Sentences that comfort every moment of motherhood

"Moms Need Kind Words" is a seven-chapter book that explores the various emotions experienced while living with a child.
Readers can simply transcribe sentences that come to mind according to the situation and need.
In each chapter, the author's essay reveals what kind of work the chapter was composed of and what meaningful changes he experienced while transcribing it.
Among the sentences to be transcribed, those that require background explanation are organized into separate paragraphs to help readers understand the work.


Chapter 1 consists of works that look into the colorful minds of children.
From Jeong Hye-shin's "You Are Right" and Leo Buscaglia's "Living, Loving, and Learning" to the words of 11-year-old Ji-ho, who became a hot topic on the Instagram of "Funzai C," you can understand the delicate heart of a child.


Chapter 2 contains a selection of works that provide insight into how to properly love a child.
From Kim Joo-hwan's "Resilience" and Shim Yun-kyung's "My Beautiful Grandmother," which emphasize the importance of understanding and supporting children, to the line in the drama "Shroop," which says that waiting is the essence of parenting, these are works that contain insight into how to love children.


Chapter 3 is a good one to open if you want to have an honest conversation about becoming a mother.
It includes 『I Went to Yoga』 by Shin Kyung-sook and 『Parenting Still』 by Jeong Ji-woo, which talk about the existence of children, as well as 『Grandmothers Never Die』 by Gong Ji-young and 『Seo Cheon-seok's Mind-Reading Time』 by Seo Cheon-seok, which talk about the strong connection between mothers and children.


Chapter 4 presents sentences that will affirm and encourage struggling mothers.
These are sentences that will give you strength when you feel like you're losing yourself while raising a child, and when you don't want to lose yourself.


On days when you feel like crying and think, 'Mom must have felt that way back then, too,' I hope you open to Chapter 5.
Reading and writing about books like Kim Ae-ran's "Saliva Gathers" and Cha Hyun-ji's "About Mother" will help you recall the warmth of love you received from your parents.


Chapter 6 is about learning how to be a good adult, and includes works such as Lee Kyung-mi's "Are You Okay? Anything" and Kim So-young's "The World Called Children."


Chapter 7 contains wise stories that I would like to share with children.
You can copy works that will remind you of how valuable life is, such as Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning," Erich Fromm's "The Art of Loving," and Yoo Si-min's "Reading in Youth."


“The sentences we use
“It tells us who we are”
10 minutes a day, a habit of focusing solely on myself

"Moms Need Kind Words" contains lighthouse-like sentences that will illuminate the lives of parents.
There are sharp sentences that accurately capture the confused mind, as well as wise sentences that show the way.


I hope people don't take my day as a mother for granted, saying it's something everyone else does.
Let's praise ourselves as mothers by listing the everyday things we take for granted because we are mothers.

-Lee Eun-kyung, "I Decided to Become a Compassionate Observer"

I just need to make sure that “mother” is just one of my many identities, not my entire identity.
-Jeong Ah-eun, "Mother's Reading"

So now I have to learn how to be myself again.
-Doris Lessing, "Going to Room 19"

It not only gives me insight into how to love my child, but also shows me how to care for and look after myself as a mother.
A mother's life, which she puts aside to focus on her child, is also precious, and the sacrifices she makes to care for her family are not taken for granted.
Take just 10 minutes a day to focus solely on yourself.
"Moms Need Kind Words" will provide the warm comfort and encouragement that moms desperately need, and will remind me of my own precious values ​​that I had forgotten.