The best advice on mothering, just in time for Mother's Day

Sunday is Mother's Day, a day each year set aside to honour mothers and all they do.

CBC P.E.I. asked you to share the best advice you've received on mothering, or from your own mother. We asked on Facebook here, on CBC P.E.I.'s Facebook page and for Islanders to call in or email Island Morning.

Here's a sampling to enjoy, from laugh out loud to eye-wateringly tender.  

(Please note that usernames are not necessarily the names of commenters. Some comments have been altered to correct spelling and to conform to CBC style.)

Glen Pye called in to Island Morning to share that his mother's advice came from a book — a cookbook she gave him as he headed off to college, called The Bachelor's Guide to Warding Off Starvation. 

"That first year, that book was a Godsend!" Pye said. 

Hugh Paton emailed Island Morning to say his mother, like most raised in the Depression era, had some time-tested pieces of great advice.

"Some were about money, some about being a good person, but the one that stands the test of time the most, and which we hand down frequently to our kids, is 'Moderation, in all things.'

Great wisdom for the next generation growing up these days."

Glenda Landry said it was her mother-in-law's advice that stuck with her most. 

"If given the opportunity, speak glowingly about your children if they are within earshot," Landry wrote on Facebook.

Ashe Green is a new mom and said her friend Aya Galloway gave her some great advice on mothering.

"[She] told me that no one truly knows what they're doing and we're all just figuring it out as we go. It gave me so much more confidence to just try things until I figure out what works." 

Charlotte Conrad said her beloved mother is gone now, but she phoned in to say she always recalls her mum repeating this short poem: "Beautiful hands are hands that do, work that is honest, good and true."