OK, so mothers are practically sanctified for bearing the child, feeding the child, nurturing the child and for just being a mother, exercising that incredibly strong muscle in her abdomen.  "There's no bond like the bond between a mother and her (note the singular) child."  It's OK for mothers at work to get phone calls from the child and no one even raises an eyebrow when she has to leave to take care of "her child" or to pick up "her child".  Overbearing people are called "paternalistic" which is nonsense; mothers are equally the cause of needing therapy as fathers are.  How about "paternal" because, as the poet Larkin says, "Your parents, they f*** you up."  Clearly, mothers are angelic and fathers are devilish.  So....now that fathers are participating in a positive way more than they have, you must NEVER overpraise them or...what?  They'll think they are doing a good job?  OK, Mom, get out there and do the "boy jobs" and maybe you will get overpraised , too.