Picture the perfect movie mom.

Would that demure, beautiful (but not sexual) and protective (but not aggressive) angel of a woman ever dump cold water on you at 6 a.m. because you stayed up too late being a teenage miscreant and now refuse to get up for school?

No. Moms have things to do. They can’t wait around for your adolescent sleep schedule to catch up. Because, despite what you frequently see on screen, children are not the only plot in a mother’s life. They were people before they had children and are still people when they have a toddler clinging to their legs.