Mama Bear is a tall, stuffed, barley-white bear that has a somewhat suit-like appearance despite being inspired by a plush. Her body appears to be sewn together, with a large tear in her abdomen revealing dark pink, intestine-like cotton. Mama Bear also has spherical eyes with small pupils, a wide, blank, smile on her face, and what appears to be blood around her mouth, resembling lipstick. Mama Bear also has stitches of four threads going down her forehead to her back, and her torso, similar to the Trigger Teddies. She wears gloves on her hands, a pink tutu, and a small, pink bow on top of her head. Her gloves have three claws at the ends of her fingers, but not on the thumbs. In darker areas, her eyes emit a strong white glow.
My Mama Bear
Mama Bear also has a far larger and more terrifying form known as Mega Mama. When entering a mysterious pool of green liquid, she will undergo a drastic transformation. Her body will become far larger and will be very bloated, and no longer wears her pink tutu. Her intestine-like cotton has now been replaced with a massive cluster of Trigger Teddies that have been clumped together. Her arms have multiple segments like a centipede, each one covered in stitches while possessing a brown, tan, yellow, or white pattern. Her right hand resembles a paw with four long, clawed fingers. Her left hand has been replaced with a round, fleshy head with bear ears and a mouth filled with sharp teeth. Her eye sockets have also deepened a bit, revealing her mascara that is leaking out.
According to her Makeship description, Mama Bear views anyone below her as disappointments if they don't do what she wants, likely explaining why she never gets mad at the Trigger Teddies since they're very compliant. She views herself as such a good mother that wearing a bear costume helps emphasize that point, forcing her babies to wear them as well to play up the act.
Whole food based ingredients give mama and baby a complete nutrition profile and food based prenatals are more absorbable and gentler on the stomach because they are derived from food instead of isolated vitamins..
I underestimated the true meaning of a mama bear instinct, and just how deeply it would run, until my first son was placed in my arms. The heavy weight of the fact that I was his voice, his advocate, and his defender hit me hard. I remember his tiny umbilical cord tearing away from the skin too soon during our short hospital stay, and my husband saw for the first time, the mama bear in me. It was like an out-of-body experience, because the ONLY thing on my mind was that my tiny human was hurting, bleeding, and crying. I was not stopping until the doctors and nurses checked him out head to toe, and assured me this was all healthy and normal.
Mama bears teach independence In order to survive on their own, a mama bear teaches her cubs how to hunt, fish, and defend themselves. She facilitates growth, independence, and self-sustaining behaviors. With their mama, cubs learn important life lessons.
As moms, we have a lot on our brains so it makes it hard to remember new information. Which is why I love the acronym of ROAR taught throughout this book. It is easily remembered and provides me with a memory tool that even my foggy mama bear brain can work with! ?
What kind of gift do you give a mama bear? A mama bear mom to me is someone who is protective, resilient, fierce and resourceful. She has strength and beauty and is the best mom she can be. SO get her a gift that celebrates her being a momma bear.
I love hats. I am outside a lot and it is always nice to have a hat to keep my hair out of my face and the sun out of my eyes. Plus, there are so many pretty and unique mama bear hats that I wish I could buy them all. I also think the Mama Bear beanies are pretty cool and I would wear one. It gets cold at night when we are camping. I have included trucker hats, ballcaps and beanies.
I have a few of these. Most of them I use when I am camping or hanging out. There is also nothing like marching into a school office to talk to the principal when you are wearing a mama bear shirt. I have included here a few t-shirts and long-sleeved shirts as well. Any mom would love any of these mama bear shirts. I have also included hoodies in this section. I love a good hoodie, especially for bonfires.
My favorite camping mug is this really nice mama bear enamel mug. Everyone has their favorite coffee mug, so why not remind them what a strong mama bear they are during morning coffee? Cups and mugs are great way to show your favorite mama bear some love. I personally love the ceramic enamel-looking one.
I hope you have found your mama bear the perfect gift. If she is an outdoorsy mom, there are plenty of other gift ideas and gift guides on this site like the best gifts for outdoorsy women. If you have any mama bear gift ideas or recommendations, be sure to drop a link below. And as always, be outside with no limits.
I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about mama bears. It\u2019s a beautiful trope in some ways. It acknowledges the deep, instinctual feelings that so many of us have for protecting and nurturing our kids. Unlike so many of the cliches of motherhood\u2014self-sacrificing, endlessly patient, inherently peaceful\u2014this one is strong and brave. I love the cartoonish image in my head of a woman lifting a car many times her size off of a trapped kid, her biceps bulging. Don\u2019t get it twisted\u2014there\u2019s nothing weak about motherhood.
However, I worry that this apocryphal story of strength is also the seed of a lot of misguided activism. We feel threatened by something\u2014CRT, a \u201Cmean\u201D kid, distance learning\u2014and our limbic systems spring into high gear, fueled by the mama bear story. We search for an enemy against which we will defend our little ones. We shut down the parts of our brains and hearts that knows that almost everyone is trying to do right by kids in the best ways that they know how, even if we disagree about what the best ways are. We stop listening. We start shit talking. We look for a car to lift.
In my experience, the most dramatic of the mama bears are those with the least realistic threats\u2014the White, privileged moms, like me, who are used to getting things our way. We are accustomed to having some power and influence, and likely have some expendable time and energy. The most pernicious examples of the mama-bear-gone-wrong are the \u201Cmothers of mass resistance\u201D\u2014those women who lined up outside William Frantz Elementary School to scream at little Ruby Bridges as she walked up the steps. Contemporary anti-racist progressives abhor those women, but have a way of foaming at the ursine mouth when something disrupts our schedules or expectations, threatens our sense of control, or contradicts some thing we hold dear about our children\u2019s identities (see: our identities).
A hallmark of the mama-bear-gone-wrong is when you are thinking individualistically\u2014This can\u2019t happen to me! This can\u2019t happen to my child!\u2014about problems and potential solutions that are actually collective (and about which you often have the least to lose). You want to make sure your child isn\u2019t bullied, but don\u2019t stop to wonder about the culture of the class or the school community as a whole. You don\u2019t want your kid learning a particular thing too early, but you don\u2019t stop to wonder what learning that thing means for other kids\u2019 in the class and/or whether it is even an option not to learn it (see: racism, transphobia etc.). The mama-bear-gone-wrong has gone so fight-or-flight that she has lost her ability to be genuinely curious.
I don\u2019t have to pretend that distance learning is my or my kids\u2019 first choice. It isn\u2019t. I don\u2019t have to deny that it puts a strain on my mental health and messes with my work. (This is critical, because negating myself entirely is textbook feminine martyrdom and/or white savior bullshit). But I also don\u2019t have to mama bear my way through the discernment that the whole school is doing about whether this is the right thing for us. I can get curious about what other people are experiencing and thinking. I can express myself with compassion for those whose economic and emotional circumstances differ. And yes, I can continue to honor my own frustration and preferences in the right proportion to those of a wider community.
I have some big feelings two years into a pandemic. But I want to bring myself back to a collective mindset whenever I can and save my mama bear energy for the real systemic threats\u2014hijacked federal policies around care, underfunded public schools and a school day that still doesn\u2019t line up with the workday, and so much more\u2014that keep us fighting one another for time, space, and dignity. Like all animals, I plan on shaking off my nerves, acknowledging my fears and disappointments, and then paying attention to who and what is around me.
Like many other mammals depicted throughout history as predators, bears are actually passive animals, and won't attack humans unless provoked. Despite this, if you even think about getting between a mother bear and her cub she'll tear straight through you. Threaten her children, and you are in for a world of hurt. Righteous awesomeness will ensue, and the heroine reclaims her child with a tearful embrace. 2ff7e9595c
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