Happy Mother's Day to the kindest mom. P.S. Your kindness annoyed me when I was a kid ^0%

STLPR - By Esther Ndumi Ngumbi - 5/10/2026, 11:40 AM

Anecdotal 24.6% - Negativity Bias 17.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 11.1%

Bertha Ngumbi, my sweet mother, is one of the kindest women I know. But when I was a kid growing up in Kenya with four siblings, her kindness annoyed me. My siblings — three sisters and one brother who has passed on — say the same thing. My mother always made us prepare and serve black tea to every person who came into our home. It did... more