Who Was the Worst Mother of All Time?

Sarah Cottrell
4 min readJan 9, 2021

These three mothers will give you nightmares.

I have a tween now, so I get to hear some nasty things like you’re the worst mother EVERRRrrr…hurled in my general direction at any given time. I tried to reason with my kid and explain that I’m a loving, decent, intelligent human capable of being cool and fun, to which my tween responded with severe eye-rolling. But it got me thinking, who was the world’s worst mother? She’d have to have been downright terrifying; the stuff of nightmares. So, I grabbed some coffee, fired up the Wi-Fi, and off I went spelunking down the…

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Sarah Cottrell

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