8 TV moms we’d love to have around in real life

All that we are, or hope to be, we owe to our parents — both real and fictional.

While biological moms deserve major props for seeing us through our formative years, serving as role models, and literally giving us life, we must never forget all the comfort and wisdom that TV moms bestowed upon us over the years.

Through our television, laptop, and phone screens, we’ve watched as mothers on our favorite television shows shared relationship, career, and life advice with their on-screen children. We listened to their words, taking them as seriously as we would our own mother’s, and grew to love the characters so deeply that we wished they were real people. Read more…

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